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Dear Fellow List Members In her article, 'With What Body Shall They Come', Meg Twycross of Lancaster University, discusses medieval traditions regarding the age of individuals resurrected at the end of the world. She includes references to Lombard, Aquinas and, of course, Augustine, as well as excerpts from Middle English sources and Vincent of Beauvais. Whilst Augustine may have nodded, other medieval authorities occasionally specified the physical age of the resurrected at a more precise 32 years and 3 months. The assumption that the resurrected would rise at the same age as Christ at his crucifixion seems to have been very strong, despite minor quibbles. This article forms pp. 271-286 of Helen Phillips (ed) Langland, The Mystics and the Medieval English Religious Tradition: Essays in Honour of S. S. Hussey", D. S. Brewer, 1990. ISBN 0 85991 301 5. (The same book that I used for a reference to an article on Medieval Cats a few days ago -- it's really full of the most interesting stuff). Apparently, there is also some further material in J A Burrow, the Ages of Man, Oxford, 1986, pp. 104, 141-143 (according to Twycross). Yours Cameron Barnes ****************************************************************** Cameron Barnes Teaching and Learning Centre University of New England Armidale NSW 2351 Australia Tel: 61 2 6773 2249 Fax: 61 2 6773 3269 ****************************************************************** %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%