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Fragmentation and redemption : essays on gender and the human body in Medieval religion
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Fragmentation and redemption : essays on gender and the human body in Medieval religion

Author: Caroline Walker Bynum
Publisher: New York : Zone Books ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by the MIT Press, 1991.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Caroline Walker Bynum
ISBN: 0942299620 9780942299625 0942299639 9780942299632
OCLC Number: 21518489
Description: 426 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: In praise of fragments : history in the comic mode -- Women's stories, women's symbols : a critique of Victor Turner's Theory of liminality -- The mysticism and asceticism of medieval women : some comments on the typologies of Max Weber and Ernst Troeltsch -- The body of Christ in the later Middle Ages : a reply to Leo Steinberg -- Women mystics and Eucharistic devotion in the thirteenth century -- "... And woman his humanity" : female imagery in the religious writing of the later Middle Ages -- The female body and religious practice in the later Middle Ages -- Material continuity, personal survival and the resurrection of the body : a scholastic discussion in its medieval and modern contexts.
Responsibility: Caroline Walker Bynum.

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