Fragmentation and Redemption

Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion

By:

Caroline Walker Bynum

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Paperback / softback

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Zone books

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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 aim to give a new interpretation of gender in medieval texts and the role of asceticism and mysticism in Christianity.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date Australia

February 11th, 1992

Author

Caroline Walker Bynum

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

432

Series

Zone books

Dimensions

152x229x33

ISBN-13

9780942299625

Product ID

3244889

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