Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion - Couverture rigide

Bynum, Caroline Walker

 
9780942299632: Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion

Synopsis

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

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À propos de l?auteur

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.

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

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0942299620 ISBN 13 :  9780942299625
Editeur : Zone Books, 1992
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