Caroline Walker Bynum
Born
in Atlanta, GA, The United States
May 10, 1941
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Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women
7 editions
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1987
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Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion
4 editions
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1990
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Jesus as Mother: Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middle Ages
3 editions
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1982
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The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336
9 editions
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1995
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Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe
3 editions
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2011
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Metamorphosis and Identity
2 editions
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2001
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Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond
2 editions
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2006
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Last Things: Death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages
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5 editions
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1999
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Gender and Religion: On the Complexity of Symbols
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1986
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Docere Verbo et Exemplo: An Aspect of Twelfth Century Spirituality
2 editions
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1979
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“And why not—whatever despair we may feel concerning resurrection and reassemblage—find comic relief in the human determination to assert wholeness in the face of inevitable decay and fragmentation?”
― Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion
― Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion
“The very implausibility of the restoration of pared down fingernails and amputated limbs at the end of time underlines, for me, the despicableness of human beings who, in fact, torture and mutilate their fellow human beings. Yet, the implausible, even risible doctrine of the resurrection of the body asserts that—if there is such a thing as redemption—it must redeem our experience of enduring and even inflicting such acts. If there is meaning to the history we tell and the corruption (both moral and physical) we suffer, surely it is in (as well as in spite of) fragmentation. Bodily resurrection at the end of time is, in a technical sense, a comic—that is, a contrived and brave—happy ending.”
― Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion
― Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion
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