![]() The intimate connection between the body and the soul, whether in life or in death, led to the worship of saints’ body parts, which were enshrined in lavish reliquaries and chapels in order to underscore their divinity. ![]() ![]() Disagreements raged with the body a battleground. They viewed the body as an instrument, with which to express the condition of the soul, thus rejecting the notion that the body should be associated exclusively with sin and corruption. Some female mystics of the Middle Ages, however, dismissed the separation of body and soul. The body was thought to be flesh, mortal, and corrupt, while the soul was immaterial, perpetual, and linked to God. According to medieval thinkers, there was an important duality that existed in every human being – the body and the soul. ![]()
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