Her book Christian Materiality (Zone Books, 2011), is an interpretive essay in art history, history of science, as well as religious history.

It won the American Academy of Religion’s Award for Excellence in the Historical Studies category the Gründler Prize for the Best Book in Medieval Studies published in 2007 and the Haskins Medal of the Medieval Academy of America. Her book Wonderful Blood (2007), a study of Christian ideas of sacrifice in medieval Germany, was researched while she was at the American Academy in Berlin in 2002. I would pick it up, read some, set it down, think about it, read something it talked about and eventually come back to it and repeat the cycle. In the period between 12 in western Europe, a number of religious women gained widespread veneration and even canonization as saints for their extrao. My mentors in the history of Christianity (and in. It came into print at a time when I, then an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, was discovering my own desire for an academic vocation. 1988 It took me almost two years to get through this book. In the world of scholarly books, Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum stands as my first and most enduring literary passion.

The essays in Fragmentation and Redemption ( 1991) and Metamorphosis and Identity ( 2001) are widely cited in discussions of historical method. 2009-07 - Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women. In the 1990s, her books Fragmentation and Redemption and The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christendom provided a paradigm for the history of the body. In the 1980s, her book Holy Feast and Holy Fast was instrumental in introducing the concept of gender into Medieval Studies. She studies the religious ideas and practices of the European Middle Ages from late antiquity to the sixteenth century.

Bynum is University Professor emerita of Columbia University and professor emerita at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

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