Food and the body
Subtitle: some peculiar questions in high medieval theology
By: by Philip Lyndon Reynolds.
Series: Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters,; Bd. 69
Publisher: Brill
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 458
Subjects: Body, Human -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500; Nutrition -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500; Food -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
Description: "'Whether or not food passes into the truth of human nature' was among the questions that scholastic theologians routinely disputed. Many twelfth-century theologians, including Peter Lombard, argued that the 'truth' of every human body came entirely from Adam, and that food stimulated its growth but was not incorporated into it."--BOOK JACKET. "The first part of the book traces the origins of such questions in theology, medicine and natural philosophy. The second part analyzes their treatment and development in thirteenth-century theology."--Jacket.

"The study illumines theologians' opinions about reproduction, fetal development, growth, nutrition, digestion, aging, corporeal identity, matter, physical quantity, the resurrection, and the relationship between theology and the natural sciences."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [441]-451) and index.