Table of Contents

Contributors:
Clifford R. Backman
Peter Brown
E. Randolph Daniel
Manuele Gragnolati
Anna Harrison
Benjamin Hudson
Jacqueline E. Jung
Claudia Rattazzi Papka
Laura A. Smoller
Harvey Stahl
Carole Straw

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Eleven essays that focus on the competing eschatologies of the Middle Ages.

About the Author

Caroline Walker Bynum is Professor of Medieval History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. She is the author and editor of numerous books, including The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women, and Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond, winner of the Award for Excellence in the Historical Study of Religion from the American Academy of Religion. Paul Freedman is Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of various articles and books, including Images of the Medieval Peasant and The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia.

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"Last Things will repay the serious attention of readers concerned with any aspect of medieval religion."--Speculum