Download or read book Medieval Theology and the Natural Body written by Peter Biller and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1997 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 correspondence with Heloise. W.G.