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Last Things: Death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages (review)

Last Things: Death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages (review) Bynum, Caroline Walker and Paul Freedman, eds, Last Things: Death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000; paper; pp. viii, 364; 18 b/w illustrations; R R P US$49.95, £37 (cloth), US$24.95, £18.50 (paper); I S B N 0812235126 (cloth), 0812217020 (paper). This collection of essays, one of many spawned by the recent millennial mome can be differentiated from others by its comprehensiveness. The 'Last Things' of the title were understood in the Middle Ages as death, judgment, heaven and hell. But as the editors explain in their useful introduction, eschatological thought was more complicated than such a simple four-fold division suggests. Accordingly, they substitute their o w n quadripartite description: 'death, the afterlife, the end of time (whether terrestrial or beyond earth), and theological anthropology or the theory of the person' (p. 1). Moreover, they suggest that none of these topics can be fully understood without reference to the others and hence that assembling essays on eschatological topics formerly studied in isolation, will have 'far-reaching implications'. However since none of the eleven essays can be confined to just one of their revised four categories they are arranged, in a process reminiscent of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Parergon Australian & New Zealand Association of Medieval & Early Modern Studies, Inc. (ANAZAMEMS, Inc.)

Last Things: Death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages (review)

Flanagan, Sabina
Parergon , Volume 18 (2) – Apr 3, 2001
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Bynum, Caroline Walker and Paul Freedman, eds, Last Things: Death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000; paper; pp. viii, 364; 18 b/w illustrations; R R P US$49.95, £37 (cloth), US$24.95, £18.50 (paper); I S B N 0812235126 (cloth), 0812217020 (paper). This collection of essays, one of many spawned by the recent millennial mome can be differentiated from others by its comprehensiveness. The 'Last Things' of the title were understood in the Middle Ages as death, judgment, heaven and hell. But as the editors explain in their useful introduction, eschatological thought was more complicated than such a simple four-fold division suggests. Accordingly, they substitute their o w n quadripartite description: 'death, the afterlife, the end of time (whether terrestrial or beyond earth), and theological anthropology or the theory of the person' (p. 1). Moreover, they suggest that none of these topics can be fully understood without reference to the others and hence that assembling essays on eschatological topics formerly studied in isolation, will have 'far-reaching implications'. However since none of the eleven essays can be confined to just one of their revised four categories they are arranged, in a process reminiscent of

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Published: Apr 3, 2001

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