By Caroline Walker Bynum Christian Materiality: An Essay.

Walker notes how ambivalent were the attitudes of late medieval Christians in Northern Europe, who saw matter as something capable of conveying the divine, but also as something threatening, in the sense that it was characterized by decay and corruption.

In Christian Materiality, Caroline Walker Bynum describes the miracles themselves, discusses the problems they presented for both church authorities and the ordinary faithful, and probes the basic scientific and religious assumptions about matter that lay behind them.

Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe By Caroline Walker Bynum In the period between 1150 and 1550, an increasing number of Christians in western Europe made pilgrimage to places where material objects -- among them paintings, statues, relics, pieces of wood, earth.

Review: Caroline Walker Bynum, Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe (New York: Zone Books, 2011) in TMR (Mar. 2012).

Caroline Walker Bynum, Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe (New York: Zone Books, 2011), 440 pp. The later centuries of the Middle Ages are often identified with sensuous displays of extravagant piety: processions of flagellants, images of the body of Christ bleeding on the cross, the exhibition of relics, outbreaks of stigmata among the female followers of.

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Caroline Walker Bynum. Jump to navigation Jump to search. Caroline Walker Bynum, FBA (born May 10, 1941 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a Medieval scholar from the United States. She is a University Professor emerita at Columbia University and Professor emerita of Western Medieval History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

In Christian Materiality, Caroline Walker Bynum describes the miracles themselves, discusses the problems they presented for both church authorities and the ordinary faithful, and probes the basic scientific and religious assumptions about matter that lay behind them.. An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe Thema Qualifier Code 1DD.

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Late Medieval Christianity's encounter with miraculous materials viewed in the context of changing conceptions of matter itself. In the period between 1150 and 1550, an increasing number of Christians in western Europe made pilgrimage to places where material objects-among them paintings, statues, relics, pieces of wood, earth, stones, and Eucharistic wafers-allegedly erupted into life through.