Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (725 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0942299620 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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She is the author of Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336, and Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Body in Medieval Religion (Zone Books, 1991).. Caroline Walker Bynum is University Professor at Columbia University
Exploring a diverse array of medieval texts, the essays show how women were able to appropriate dominant social symbols in ways that revised and undercut them, allowing their own creative and religious voices to emerge. She also examines how the acts and attitudes of men affected the cultural construction of categories such as "female," "heretic," and "saint" and shows that the study of gender is the study of how roles and possibilities are conceptualized by both women and men. She is Professor of History at Columbia University.. She shows that a consideration of medieval texts written by women and the rituals attractive to them undermines the approaches of three 20th-century intellectual figures - Victor Turner, Max Weber, and Leo Steinberg - and illustrates how other disciplines can enrich historical research. Taken together, they provide a model of how to account for gender in studying medieval texts and offer a new interpretation of the role of asceticism and mysticism in Christianity.In the first three essays, Bynum focuses on the methodological problems inherent in the writing of history. While describing the "experiential" literary voices of medieval women, Bynum underlines the corporality of women's piety and focuses on both the cultural construction and the intractable physicality of the body itself. These seven essays by noted historian Caroline Walker Bynum exemplify her argument that historians must write in a "comic" mode, aware of history's ar
"So although I can't say I loved it, it was extremely interesting and informative about" according to Amazon Customer. I found it fascinating, although it is very dense. I had to read it for a class on christian anthropology. So although I can't say I loved it, it was extremely interesting and informative about religion during the medieval times, especially its impact on women. And since those. "Love and Inestimable Satiety" saint eyebeat Fragmentation and Redemption is a series of seven essays spanning the topics of gender, religious relics, sex, mortality, gender and the miraculous. The essays and the accompanying images are graphic and unforgettable. For example; "The ill clamored for the bathwater of would-. Cultural analysis v. social scientific method of medieval religiosity In Fragmentation and Redemption, Carolyn Bynum refutes modern misconceptions about spirituality and symbols in the European Middle Ages. More importantly and relevant to her book, she addresses misinterpretations of female spirituality in the same period. The author faults som
She provides an encouraging model for both historical endeavor and the management of an increasingly fragmented modern existence." Christopher Hughes , Voice Literary Supplement. In 1188, the Benedictine monk Gervase of Canterbury wrote that, compared to the plodding chronicler, "the historian proceeds diffusely and elegantly." On the strength of her writing style and her sophisticated, sensitive deployment of prodigious knowledge, Caroline Bynum is surely a historian by Gervase"s standards