Alastair Minnis

From Eden to Eternity

Creations of Paradise in the Later Middle Ages

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Produktbeschreibung

Alastair Minnis is Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English at Yale University and author of Fallible Authors: Chaucer's Pardoner and Wife of Bath and Medieval Theory of Authorship: Scholastic Literary Attitudes in the Later Middle Ages, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780812247237
• ISBN-10: 081224723X
• Artikelnr.: 42559309

Autorenporträt

Alastair Minnis

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Introduction. Creating Paradise
Chapter 1. The Body in Eden
—Creating Bodies
—Bodily Functions
—The Pleasures of Paradise
—Being Fruitful and Multiplying
—The Children of Eden
—What Adam Knew
—Creating Souls
—Eden as Human Habitat
Chapter 2. Power in Paradise
—Dominion over the Animals
—Domestic Dominion: The Origins of Economics
—Power and Gender
—Unequal Men: The Origins of Politics
—Power and Possession: The Origins of Ownership
—The Insubordinate Fall
Chapter 3. Death and the Paradise Beyond
—The Death of the Animal
—The Body Returns
—Representing Paradise: From Eden to the Patria
—Perfecting Children's Bodies
—Rewarding Inequality
—Negotiating the Material
—Resurrecting the Senses
—Somewhere over the Rainbow
Coda. Between Paradises
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments