Immortality and the body in the age of milton
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781108432047
Date de publication :
1 avr. 2021
Dimensions :
22,8 x 15,0 x 1,4 cm
Poids :
400 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
The seventeenth-century Scientific Revolution unsettled traditional conceptions in theology and psychology. Perhaps the soul was neither immaterial nor immortal. Milton and certain of his contemporaries explored new ways of thinking about the soul and its relation to body, and imagined transcendence as including the body.