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Fragmentation & Redemption – Essays on Gender & Human Body in Medieval Religion: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion (Zone Books) - Hardcover

Bynum, Cw

 
9780942299632: Fragmentation & Redemption – Essays on Gender & Human Body in Medieval Religion: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion (Zone Books)

Synopsis

Arguing that historians must write in a comic mode, aware of history's artifice, risks, and incompletion, Caroline Walker Bynum here examines diverse medieval texts to show how women were able to appropriate dominant social symbols in ways that allowed for the emergence of their own creative voices. By arguing for the positive importance attributed to the body, these essays give a new interpretation of gender in medieval texts and of the role of asceticism and mysticism in Christianity.

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About the Author

Caroline Walker Bynum is Professor of Medieval European History, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, and University Professor Emerita at Columbia University. She is the author of Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion and Metamorphosis and Identity, both published by Zone Books.

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