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Caroline Walker Bynum

Born

in Atlanta, GA, The United States

May 10, 1941

Website

https://www.ias.edu/scholars/bynum

Genre

Religion & Spirituality, History

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Caroline Walker Bynum is Professor emerita of Medieval European History at the Institute for Advanced Study, and University Professor emerita at Columbia University in the City of New York. She studies the religious ideas and practices of the European Middle Ages from late antiquity to the sixteenth century.

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Average rating: 4.18 · 1,349 ratings · 104 reviews · 17 distinct works • Similar authors

	Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women 4.19 avg rating — 743 ratings — published 1987 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion 4.28 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jesus as Mother: Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middle Ages 4.10 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 1982 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336 4.19 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 1995 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe 4.21 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Metamorphosis and Identity 4.03 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond 4.54 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Last Things: Death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages by Caroline Walker Bynum (Editor), Paul Freedman (Editor), Anna Harrison (Contributor) 4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gender and Religion: On the Complexity of Symbols by Caroline Walker Bynum (Editor), Michael Allen Williams (Contributor), John Stratton Hawley (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1986 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Docere Verbo et Exemplo: An Aspect of Twelfth Century Spirituality really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1979 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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?”
― Caroline Walker Bynum, Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion

tags: catholicism, christianity, comedy-absurd, fragmentation, medieval-history, medievalism, new-historicism, postmodernism, redemption, resurrection

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“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.”
― Caroline Walker Bynum, Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion

tags: absurdism, body, catholicism, comedy, history, humanism, medievalism, redemption, resurrection

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