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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Dear Steve, Way back when, at the start of this very interesting thread, you wrote: > I am working on the death scene of Francis of Assisi in which his dead > body miraculously is transformed into the "resurrection body", i.e., > it takes on the four endowments: impassibility (impassibilitas), > clarity (claritas), agility (agilitas), and subtlety or elusiveness > (subtilitas). That formulation with four abstract nouns ending in _-tas_ is characteristic of scholastic discourse and thus seemingly later medieval. The medieval depiction of the resurrected Christ that comes first to mind as possibly representing these qualities is the early fourteenth-century Anastasis in the Chora Church in Istanbul (which latter, when it was a monastic church in Constantinople, was dedicated to the Savior): http://tinyurl.com/yeojlvs That too is later medieval but it derives from a tradition that I would not expect to have been influenced greatly by scholastic thought. How old are the "four endowments" as such? What late antique or earlier medieval theologians have a scheme of four attributes for the "resurrection body"? Or of three attributes or of five? Best, John Dillon ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html