Last Things: Death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages. This item is unavailable.Last Things: Death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages

The authors bring tegether 11 essays that focus on the competing eschatologies of the Middle Ages and on the ways in which they expose different sensibilities and theories of the human person, and different understandings of the body, of time, of the end.'

Caroline Walker Bynum is Professor of Medieval History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. She is the author and editor of numerous books, including The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women, and Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond, winner of the Award for Excellence in the Historical Study of Religion from the American Academy of Religion. Paul Freedman is Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of various articles and books, including Images of the Medieval Peasant and The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia.