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Fragmentation and Redemption
Language: en
Pages: 440
Authors: Caroline Walker Bynum
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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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 t
Fragmentation and Redemption
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Caroline Walker Bynum
Categories: Women in Christianity
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher:

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Fragmentation and Redemption
Language: en
Pages: 444
Authors: Caroline Walker Bynum
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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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, ri
Wonderful Blood
Language: en
Pages: 457
Authors: Caroline Walker Bynum
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-11-05 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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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 fo
Metamorphosis and Identity
Language: en
Pages: 294
Authors: Caroline Walker Bynum
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-05-06 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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