Medieval theology and the natural body

Peter Biller, A. J. Minnis

On March 11 1995, a conference on medieval theology and the natural body, organised by the University of York's Centre for Medieval Studies, was held at King's Manor, York, under the title 'This Body of Death' (echoing Romans 7. 24). This collection includes the papers delivered on that occasion, together with further invited papers on the theme. An introductory essay by Peter Biller on medieval and contemporary concerns with the body is followed by Alcuin Blamire's examination of the paradoxes inherent in the metaphor of man as head, woman as body, in authors ranging from St Augustine to Christine de Pizan. Peter Abelard, a writer who 'dislocated' this image, is the principal figure of the next two papers. David Luscombe's study looks successively at Abelard's view of the role of senses in relation to thought and mind, the problem of body in resurrected beings, and dualities in his...

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