From Eden to Eternity
Creations of Paradise in the Later Middle Ages
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Word Count
96,000 words, Guess
Page Count
384 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780812247237
- ISBN-10081224723X
- AmazonB012Z3MQTC
- Library of Congress Control Number2015016277
- OCLC Control Number907193859
and 3 more
- Better World Books9780812247237
- Better World BooksP8-CNN-532
- Open LibraryOL28807619M
Classifications
- LCCBS1237.M56 2016
- LCCBS1237 .M56 2016
Description
Introduction : creating paradise -- ch. 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 -- ch. 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 -- ch. 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.
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