Fragmentation and redemption essays on gender and the human body in medieval religion Caroline Walker Bynum

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Acknowledgments. -- In Praises of Fragments : History in the Comic Mode. -- I. Women's Stories, Women's Symbols : A Critique of Victor Turner's Theory of Liminality. -- II. The Mysticism and Asceticism of Medieval Women : Some Comments on the Typologies of Max Weber and Ernst Troeltsch. -- III. The Body of Christ in the Later Middle Ages : A Reply to Leo Steinberg. -- IV. Women Mystics and Eucharistic Devotion in the Thirteenth Century. -- V. "...And Woman His Humanity" : Female Imagery in the Religious Writing of the Later Middle Ages. -- VI. The Female Body and Religious Practice in the Later Middle Ages. -- VII. Material Continuity, Personal Survival and the Ressurection of the Body : A Scholastic Discussion in Its Medieval and Modern Contexts. -- Notes. -- Index

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