
Fragmentation and Redemption
Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion
Caroline Walker Bynum(Author)
Zone Books (Publisher)
Published on 1. November 1990
Book
Hardback
432 pages
978-0-942299-63-2 (ISBN)
Description
Arguing that historians must write in a comic mode, aware of history's artifice, risks, and incompletion, Caroline Walker Bynum here examines diverse medieval texts to show how women were able to appropriate dominant social symbols in ways that allowed for the emergence of their own creative voices. By arguing for the positive importance attributed to the body, these essays give a new interpretation of gender in medieval texts and of the role of asceticism and mysticism in Christianity.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
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Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 39 mm
Weight
771 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-942299-63-2 (9780942299632)
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