New 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 DUFFY

About the Author
PETE BILLER is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of York. PETE BILLER is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of York.

Reviews
New 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 *



Book Information
ISBN 9780952973409
Author Professor Peter Biller
Format Hardback
Page Count 254
Imprint York Medieval Press
Publisher York Medieval Press
Weight(grams) 1g