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    Dissimilar Similitudes - Devotional Objects in Late Medieval Europe

    Caroline Bynum

    From an acclaimed historian, a mesmerising account of how medieval European Christians envisioned the paradoxical nature of holy objects.

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    The Abuse Of The Bishop’s Office

    Caroline Bynum

    Through Jesus' shed blood, a kingdom of restoration and power has been made available to us in which we are to minister and be ministered righteousness. instead of seeking God…

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    Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond

    Caroline Walker Bynum

    Bynum argues that Christ’s blood as both object and symbol was central to late medieval art, literature, and religious life. As cult object, blood provided a focus of theological debate…

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    Metamorphosis and Identity

    Caroline Walker Bynum

    An exploration of the roles of metamorphosis and hybridity in the establishment of personal identity, with particular emphasis on the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

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    Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Mediaeval Religion

    Caroline Walker Bynum

    Caroline Walker Bynum 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.

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    Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe

    Caroline Walker Bynum

    Late Medieval Christianity’s encounter with miraculous materials viewed in the context of changing conceptions of matter itself.

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    Dissimilar Similitudes - Devotional Objects in Late Medieval Europe

    Caroline Walker Bynum

    From an acclaimed historian, a mesmerising account of how medieval European Christians envisioned the paradoxical nature of holy objects.

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    The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336

    Caroline Walker Bynum

    A classic of medieval studies, this book traces ideas of death and resurrection in early and medieval Christianity. Caroline Walker Bynum explores problems of the body and identity in devotional…

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    The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336

    Caroline Walker Bynum

    A classic of medieval studies, this book traces ideas of death and resurrection in early and medieval Christianity. Caroline Walker Bynum explores problems of the body and identity in devotional…

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    Jesus as Mother: Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middle Ages

    Caroline Walker Bynum

    Features essays that apply the method to the broader question of differences between regular canons and monks and the narrower question of differences between one kind of monk - the…

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    Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women

    Caroline Walker Bynum

    Explores the ways in which food practices enabled women to exert control within the family and to define their religious vocations. This title describes what women meant by seeing their…

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    The Resurrection of the Body: Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy

    Caroline Walker Bynum

    Bynum examines several periods between the third and fourteenth centuries in which discussions of the body were central to Western eschatology, and suggests that Western attitudes toward the body that…

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    Last Things: Death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages

    Eleven essays that focus on the competing eschatologies of the Middle Ages.

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    Gendered Voices: Medieval Saints and Their Interpreters

    Female saints, mystics, and visionaries have been much studied. What strategies can be employed to discern and distinguish the voices of these late medieval women from those of their scribes…

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