2009 Danforth Lecture featuring Caroline Bynum - "Why Things Talk: A Medievalist's Perspective"
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Caroline Bynum's work has been instrumental in introducing the concept of gender into the study of medieval Christianity. Her path-breaking books, 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. She is currently working on pilgrimage and piety in Germany and on theories of identity in medieval theology. She came to the Institute from Columbia University, where she was the first woman to be named University Professor.
(Biographical information courtesy of the Institute for Advanced Studies, 2009)
Event Location: School of Architecture, Betts Auditorium N101
Date/Time: 2009-12-03 at 4:30 pm
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