Caroline Walker Bynum

Broschiertes Buch

Wonderful Blood

Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond

Beschreibung

Bynum argues that Christ's blood as both object and symbol was central to late medieval art, literature, and religious life. As cult object, blood provided a focus of theological debate about the nature of matter, body, and God and an occasion for Jewish persecution; as motif, blood became a central symbol in popular devotion.

Autor

Caroline Walker Bynum is Professor of Medieval History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Past president of both the American Historical Association and the Medieval Academy of America, she was a MacArthur Fellow from 1986 to 1991. She is the author of numerous books, including Metamorphosis and Identity, The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336, Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion, and Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women, and is the editor, with Paul Freedman, of Last Things: Eschatology and Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 744g
• ISBN-13: 9780812220193
• ISBN-10: 0812220196
• Artikelnr.: 23431464