Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200–1336

Caroline Walker Bynum is University Professor emerita at Columbia University and professor emerita of medieval European history at the Institute for Advanced Study. Her books include Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women(1987); Metamorphosis and Identity (2001); Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond (2007); and Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe (2011).

There are few historians of whom one can say that they have actually shifted some of the landscape of the writing of history in their own generation, but Bynum is one of them. New Republic [A] fascinating and wide-ranging account that tells us a lot about medieval thinking and practice. New York Times Book Review A masterful work of intellectual history. Publishers Weekly

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction to the 2017 Edition: What’s New about the Medieval?Preface to the 1995 Edition: Acknowledgments and Methodological MusingsIntroduction to the 1995 Edition: Seed Images, Ancient and ModernPart I. The Patristic Background1. Resurrection and Martyrdom: The Decades Around 2002. Resurrection, Relic Cult, and Asceticism: The Debates of 400 and Their BackgroundPart II. The Twelfth Century3. Reassemblage and Regurgitation: Ideas of Bodily Resurrection in Early Scholasticism4. Psychosomatic Persons and Reclothed Skeletons: Images of Resurrection in Spiritual Writingand Iconography5. Resurrection, Heresy, and Burial ad Sanctos: The Twelfth-Century ContextPart III. The Decades Around 13006. Resurrection, Hylomorphism, and Abundantia: Scholastic Debates in the Thirteenth Century7. Somatomorphic Soul and Visio Dei: The Beatific Vision Controversy and Its Background8. Fragmentation and Ecstasy: The Thirteenth-Century ContextAfterword: Why All the Fuss about the Body? A Medievalist’s PerspectiveIllustration CreditsGeneral IndexIndex of Secondary Authors