Fragmentation and Redemption Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion

Name: Fragmentation and Redemption Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion
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ISBN: 9780942299625

ISBN-10: 0942299620

ISBN-13: 9780942299625

Edition: 1991

Authors: Caroline Walker Bynum

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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 incompletion. Exploring a diverse array of medieval texts, the essays show how women were able to appropriate dominant social symbols in ways that revised and undercut them, allowing their own creative and religious voices to emerge. Taken together, they provide a model of how to account for gender in studying medieval texts and offer a new interpretation of the role of asceticism and mysticism in Christianity. In the first three essays, Bynum focuses on the methodological problems inherent in the writing of history. She…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Zone Books
Publication date: 2/11/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Caroline Walker Bynum is University Professor at Columbia University. She is the author of Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336, and Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Body in Medieval Religion (Zone Books, 1991).