Metamorphosis and identity, by Caroline Walker Bynum. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. Last things: death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, edited by Caroline Walker Bynum and Paul Freedman. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. The Resurrection of the body in Western Christianity, 200-1336, by Caroline Walker Bynum. New York: Zone Books Cambridge, Mass.: Distributed by the MIT Press, 1991. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.įragmentation and redemption: essays on gender and the human body in Medieval religion, by Caroline Walker Bynum. Holy feast and holy fast: the religious significance of food to medieval women, by Caroline Walker Bynum. Gender and religion: on the complexity of symbols, edited by Caroline Walker Bynum, Stevan Harrell, and Paula Richman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. Jesus as mother: studies in the spirituality of the High Middle Ages, by Caroline Walker Bynum. Bibliographyĭocere verbo et exemplo: an aspect of twelfth-century spirituality, by Caroline Walker Bynum.

The present essay grows out of both her earlier research on miracles of bodily transformation and her current study of medieval conceptions of natural and psychological change. A historian of medieval religious thought and practice with a special interest in women’s piety, Bynum has turned recently to an investigation of attitudes toward the natural world in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Her best-known works are Jesus as Mother (1982), Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (1987), and The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200–1336 (1995). Caroline Walker Bynum teaches the history of the European Middle Ages at Columbia University.

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