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Last things : death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages / edited by Caroline Walker Bynum and Paul Freedman.

p. cm. — (The Middle Ages series)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-8122-3512-6 (cloth : alk. paper). —

ISBN 0-8122-1702-0 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Eschatology—History of doctrines—Middle Ages, 600–1500.

I. Bynum, Caroline Walker. II. Freedman, Paul H., 1949–
III. Series.

BT819.5.L37   1999

236’.09’02—dc21	99-34223
	CIP

Frontispiece: Jan van Eyck, The Last Judgment.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 1933 (33.92b).