
By Peter Biller, A.J. Minnis
ISBN-10: 0585259135
ISBN-13: 9780585259130
ISBN-10: 0952973405
ISBN-13: 9780952973409
This is often the 1st quantity to be released through York Medieval Press, less than the aegis of college of York's Centre for Medieval experiences in organization with Boydell & Brewer, with the purpose of marketing cutting edge scholarship and clean feedback on medieval tradition. It has a unique dedication to interdisciplinary learn, based on the Centre's trust that the way forward for medieval stories lies in components during which its significant disciplines immediately tell and problem one another. The attitudes in the direction of the human physique held via varied branches of medieval theology are presently a massive concentration of scholarly recognition. this primary quantity from York Medieval Press contains reviews of the metaphor of guy as head and girl as physique, Abelard, girls and Catharism, the feminine physique as an obstacle to ordination, girls mystics, and the college of York's 1995 Quodlibet Lecture given via Eamon Duffy at the early iconography and `lives' of St Francis of Assisi..... Thenew scholarly essays amassed the following discover ways that the human physique - a tremendous concentration of consciousness in fresh paintings on literary thought and cultural reviews -was handled by means of numerous branches of medieval theology; they're derived within the mainfrom a convention held at York in 1995, below the name `This physique of Death', including extra invited papers at the related subject. It comprises the 1st of the yearly Quodlibet Lectures in medieval theology, Eamon Duffy's masterly examine of the early iconography and `lives' of St Francis of Assisi.