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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Fragmentation and Redemption is first of all about bodies and the relationship of part to whole in the high Middle Ages, a period in which the overcoming of partition and putrefaction was the very image of paradise. It is also a study of gender, t...

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