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Holy Feast and Holy Fast
Examines the role of food in the religion of women in the Middle Ages and argues that food practices enabled women to exert power in the family and define their religious vocations
Wonderful Blood
The quiet market town of Wilsnack in northeastern Germany is unfamiliar to most English-speakers and even to many modern Germans. Yet in the fifteenth century it was a European …
Hellig føde, hellig faste
Forfatteren viser hvordan middelalderens kvinner brukte mat og fasten som en del av sin religion. I boken blir myten om kristendommen som kroppsfiendtlig avlivet. Forfatteren …
The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200–1336
A classic of medieval studies, The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336 traces ideas of death and resurrection in early and medieval Christianity. Caroline …
Dissimilar Similitudes
From an acclaimed historian, a mesmerizing account of how medieval European Christians envisioned the paradoxical nature of holy objectsBetween the twelfth and the sixteenth …
Jesus as Mother
From the Introduction, by Caroline Walker Bynum: The opportunity to rethink and republish several of my early articles in combination with a new essay on the thirteenth century has …
Dissimilar Similitudes – Devotional Objects in Late Medieval Europe
Holy Feast and Holy Fast
In the period between 1200 and 1500 in western Europe, a number of religious women gained widespread veneration and even canonization as saints for their extraordinary devotion to …
Last Things
When the medievals spoke of "last things" they were sometimes referring to events, such as the millennium or the appearance of the Antichrist, that would come to all of humanity or …
The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200–1336
Bynum examines several periods between the 3rd and 14th centuries in which discussions of the body were central to Western eschatology, and suggests that Western attitudes toward …
Gendered Voices
"These studies . . . not only illuminate the past with a fierce and probing light but also raise, with nuance and power, fundamental issues of interpretation and method."—from the …
Fragmentation and Redemption
These seven essays by noted historian Caroline Walker Bynum exemplify her argument that historians must write in a "comic" mode, aware of history's artifice, risks, and …