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Last Things : Death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Middle Ages SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999Copyright date: ©2000Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (374 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812208450
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Last ThingsDDC classification:
  • 236/.09/02
LOC classification:
  • BT819.5 -- .L37 2000eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: The Significance of Dying and the Afterlife -- Settling Scores: Eschatology in the Church of the Martyrs -- The Decline of the Empire of God: Amnesty, Penance, and the Afterlife from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages -- From Jericho to Jerusalem: The Violent Transformation of Archbishop Engelbert of Cologne -- From Decay to Splendor: Body and Pain in Bonvesin da la Riva's Book of the Three Scriptures -- Part II: Apocalyptic Time -- Time Is Short: The Eschatology of the Early Gaelic Church -- Exodus and Exile: Joachim of Fiore's Apocalyptic Scenario -- Arnau de Vilanova and the Body at the End of the World -- Of Earthquakes, Hail, Frogs, and Geography: Plague and the Investigation of the Apocalypse in the Later Middle Ages -- Part III: The Eschatological Imagination -- Community Among the Saintly Dead: Bernard of Clairvaux's Sermons for the Feast of All Saints -- Heaven in View: The Place of the Elect in an Illuminated Book of Hours -- The Limits of Apocalypse: Eschatology, Epistemology, and Textuality in the Commedia and Piers Plowman -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: Eleven essays that focus on the competing eschatologies of the Middle Ages.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: The Significance of Dying and the Afterlife -- Settling Scores: Eschatology in the Church of the Martyrs -- The Decline of the Empire of God: Amnesty, Penance, and the Afterlife from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages -- From Jericho to Jerusalem: The Violent Transformation of Archbishop Engelbert of Cologne -- From Decay to Splendor: Body and Pain in Bonvesin da la Riva's Book of the Three Scriptures -- Part II: Apocalyptic Time -- Time Is Short: The Eschatology of the Early Gaelic Church -- Exodus and Exile: Joachim of Fiore's Apocalyptic Scenario -- Arnau de Vilanova and the Body at the End of the World -- Of Earthquakes, Hail, Frogs, and Geography: Plague and the Investigation of the Apocalypse in the Later Middle Ages -- Part III: The Eschatological Imagination -- Community Among the Saintly Dead: Bernard of Clairvaux's Sermons for the Feast of All Saints -- Heaven in View: The Place of the Elect in an Illuminated Book of Hours -- The Limits of Apocalypse: Eschatology, Epistemology, and Textuality in the Commedia and Piers Plowman -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Acknowledgments.

Eleven essays that focus on the competing eschatologies of the Middle Ages.

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