Introduction to the 2017 Edition: What’s New about the Medieval?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Introduction to the 2017 Edition: What’s New about the Medieval? xiii
5. Preface to the 1995 Edition: Acknowledgments and Methodological Musings xxix
6. Introduction to the 1995 Edition: Seed Images, Ancient and Modern 1
7. Part One: The Patristic Background
8. 1. Resurrection and Martyrdom: The Decades Around 200 21
9. 2. Resurrection, Relic Cult, and Asceticism: The Debates of 400 and Their Background 59
10. Part Two: The Twelfth Century
11. 3. Reassemblage and Regurgitation: Ideas of Bodily Resurrection in Early Scholasticism 117
12. 4. Psychosomatic Persons and Reclothed Skeletons: Images of Resurrection in Spiritual Writing and Iconography 156
13. 5. Resurrection, Heresy, and Burial ad Sanctos: The Twelfth-Century Context 200
14. Part Three: The Decades Around 1300
15. 6. Resurrection, Hylomorphism, and Abundantia: Scholastic Debates in the Thirteenth Century 229
16. 7. Somatomorphic Soul and Visio Dei: The Beatific Vision Controversy and Its Background 279
17. 8. Fragmentation and Ecstasy: The Thirteenth-Century Context 318
18. Afterword: Why All the Fuss about the Body? A Medievalist’s Perspective 345
19. Illustration Credits 383
20. General Index 385
21. Index of Secondary Authors 399