Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion by Caroline Walker Bynum

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

Caroline Walker Bynum

432 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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, risks, and incompletion. Exploring a diverse array of medieval texts, the essays show how w...

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