The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity: 200-1336.
Sociology of Religion › Vol. 57 Nbr. 2, June 1996
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The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity: 200-1336.
Tourists who make the delightful side trip to the tiny island of Torcello in the Venetian lagoon are rewarded with a grand, if somewhat unsettling spectacle. For on the west wall of the 11th century basilica is a complex mosaic depicting key phases in the apocalyptic Christian conception of history and the eschaton, the "end of days." Visually dominant is the central and oversized figure of t...
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