Last Things: Death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages

by Caroline Walker Bynum

When the medievals spoke of "last things" they were sometimes referring to events, such as the millennium or the appearance of the Antichrist, that would come to all of humanity or at the end of time. But they also meant the last things that would come to each individual separately--not just the place, Heaven, Hell, or Purgatory, to which their souls would go but also the accounting, the calling to reckoning, that would come at the end of life...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812217020
• ISBN13: 9780812217025
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"