Medieval Theology and the Natural Body

This is the first volume to be published by York Medieval Press, under the aegis of University of York's Centre for Medieval Studies in association with Boydell & Brewer, with the aim of promoting innovative scholarship and fresh criticism on medieval culture. It has a special commitment to interdisciplinary study, in line with the Centre's belief that the future of medieval studies lies in areas in which its major disciplines at once inform and challenge each other. 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. The new scholarly essays collected here explore ways in which the human body - a major focus of attention in recent work on literary theory and cultural studies -was treated by several branches of medieval theology; they are derived in the mainfrom a conference held at York in 1995, under the title 'This Body of Death', together with further invited papers on the same theme. It includes the first of the Annual Quodlibet Lectures in medieval theology, Eamon Duffy's masterly study of the early iconography and 'lives' of St Francis of Assisi. PETER BILLER is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of York; A.J. MINNIS is Professor of Medieval Literature at the University of York. Contributors: PETER BILLER, ALCUIN BLAMIRES, DAVID LUSCOMBE, W.G. EAST, A.J. MINNIS, DYAN ELLIOTT, ROSALYNN VOADEN, EAMON DUFFY

ISBN 0952973405   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780952973409 (What's this?)   Co_publisher York Medieval Press Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd   Weight (grammes) 537 Imprint D.S. Brewer   Published in Cambridge Format Hardback   Series ISSN 1366-965 Publication date 25 Sep 1997   Series title York Studies in Medieval Theology Library of Congress 97001032   Height (mm) 234 DEWEY 230.0902   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY edition DC21   Spine width (mm) 15 Pages 256   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

		List of Plates
		Abbreviations
1		Introduction: John of Naples, Quodlibets and Medieval Theological Concern with the Body by Peter Biller		3
2		Paradox in the Medieval Gender Doctrine of Head and Body by Alcuin Blamires		13
3		Peter Abelard's Carnal Thoughts by David Luscombe		31
4		This Body of Death: Abelard, Heloise and the Religious Life by W. G. East		43
5		Cathars and Material Women by Peter Biller		61
6		De impedimento sexus: Women's Bodies and Medieval Impediments to Female Ordination by A. J. Minnis		109
7		The Physiology of Rapture and Female Spirituality by Dyan Elliott		141
8		Beholding Men's Members: The Sexualizing of Transgression in The Book of Margery Kempe by Rosalynn Voaden		175
9		Finding St Francis: Early Images, Early Lives by Eamon Duffy		193
		Index of Names and Titles		237

New insight and good scholarship... a serious and rich volume which historians of theology, women, popular religion and mysticism will enjoy. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW (Miri Rubin) Lively, scholarly (and) wide-ranging addition to literature on 'the body'. NOTES & QUERIES

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