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Book SynopsisNew interdisciplinary essays on the treatment of the body in medieval theology.The attitudes towards the human body held by different branches of medieval theology are currently a major focus of scholarly attention. This first volume from York Medieval Press includes studies of the metaphor of man as head and woman as body, Abelard, women and Catharism, the female body as an impediment to ordination, women mystics, and the University of York's 1995 Quodlibet Lecture given by Eamon Duffy on the early iconography and "lives" of St Francis of Assisi. PETER BILLER is Professor of Medieval History at the University of York; A.J. MINNIS is Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English, Yale Univesrity. Contributors:
PETER BILLER, ALCUIN BLAMIRES, DAVID LUSCOMBE, W.G. EAST, A.J. MINNIS, DYAN ELLIOTT, ROSALYNN VOADEN, EAMON DUFFYTrade ReviewNew insight and good scholarship... a serious and rich volume which historians of theology, women, popular religion and mysticism will enjoy. -- Miri Rubin * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *
Lively, scholarly [and] wide-ranging addition to literature on `the body'. * NOTES & QUERIES *
Table of ContentsJohn of Naples, Quodlibets and Medieval Theological Concern with the Body - Peter Biller Paradox in the Medieval Gender Doctrine of Head and Body - Alcuin Blamires Peter Abelard's Carnal Thoughts - David Luscombe This Body of Death: Abelard, Heloise and the Religious Life - W.G. East Cathars and Material Women - Peter Biller De impedimento sexus: Women's Bodies and Medieval Impediments to Female Ordination - Alastair J Minnis The Physiology of Rapture and Female Spirituality - Dyan Elliott Beholding Men's Members: The Sexualizing of Transgression in The Book of Margery Kempe - Rosalynn Voaden Finding St Francis: Early Images, Early Lives - Eamon Duffy
