'The Sacrality of Things: An Inquiry into Divine Materiality in the Christian Middle Ages’
- St Patrick's College, Maynooth 27/03/2012
Prof. Caroline Bynum’s work has been instrumental in introducing the concept of gender into the study of medieval Christianity. Her ground-breaking studies, Holy Feast and Holy Fast (1987) and The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christendom (1995), created the paradigm for the study of women’s piety that dominates the field today and helped propel the history of the body into a major area of pre-modern European Studies. Her recent works comprise a radical reinterpretation of the nature of Christianity on the eve of the sixteenth-century reformations. Wonderful Blood (2007), which won the American Academy of Religion’s Award for Excellence in Historical
Studies among other prizes, examines the phenomenon of blood piety in fifteenth-century northern Germany in its larger European context. Her most recent study, Christian materiality (2011) locates the upsurge in new forms of art and devotion in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries against the background of changes in natural philosophy and theology. She is currently working on medieval devotional objects in a comparative and cross-cultural perspective.
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