{"product_id":"last-things-death-and-the-apocalypse-in-the-middle-ages-paperback-softback-9780812217025","title":"Last Things; Death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812217025","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLast Things\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDeath and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCaroline Walker Bynum (Edited by), Paul Freedman (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812217025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 22 October 1999\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e376 pages, 17 illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.5 x 2.2 cm, 0.57 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLast Things\u003c\/i\u003e will repay the serious attention of readers concerned with any aspect of medieval religion.\"-\u003ci\u003eSpeculum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the medievals spoke of \"last things\" they were sometimes referring to events, such as the millennium or the appearance of the Antichrist, that would come to all of humanity or at the end of time. But they also meant the last things that would come to each individual separately-not just the place, Heaven, Hell, or Purgatory, to which their souls would go but also the accounting, the calling to reckoning, that would come at the end of life. At different periods in the Middle Ages one or the other of these sorts of \"last things\" tended to be dominant, but both coexisted throughout. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLast Things\u003c\/i\u003e, Caroline Walker Bynum and Paul Freedman bring together eleven essays that focus on the competing eschatologies of the Middle Ages and on the ways in which they expose different sensibilities, different theories of the human person, and very different understandings of the body, of time, of the end. Exploring such themes as the significance of dying and the afterlife, apocalyptic time, and the eschatological imagination, each essay in the volume enriches our understanding of the eschatological awarenesses of the European Middle Ages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors:\u003cbr\u003e Clifford R. Backman\u003cbr\u003e Peter Brown\u003cbr\u003e E. Randolph Daniel\u003cbr\u003e Manuele Gragnolati\u003cbr\u003e Anna Harrison\u003cbr\u003e Benjamin Hudson\u003cbr\u003e Jacqueline E. Jung\u003cbr\u003e Claudia Rattazzi Papka\u003cbr\u003e Laura A. Smoller\u003cbr\u003e Harvey Stahl\u003cbr\u003e Carole Straw\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739524198680,"sku":"9780812217025","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/last-things-death-and-the-apocalypse-in-the-middle-ages-paperback-softback-9780812217025","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}