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In the period between 1150 and 1550, an increasing number of Christians in westernEurope made pilgrimage to places where material objects—among them paintings, statues,relics, pieces of wood, earth, stones, and Eucharistic wafers—allegedly erupted into lifeby such activities as bleeding, weeping, and walking about. Challenging Christians both to seek evermore frequent encounter with miraculous matter and to turn to an inward piety that rejected materialobjects of devotion, such phenomena were by the fifteenth century at the heart of religious practiceand polemic. In Christian Materiality, Caroline Walker Bynum describes the miracles themselves,discusses the problems they presented for both church authorities and the ordinary faithful, andprobes the basic scientific and religious assumptions about matter that lay behind them. She alsoanalyzes the proliferation of religious art in the later Middle Ages and argues that it calledattention to its materiality in sophisticated ways that explain both the animation of images and thehostility to them on the part of iconoclasts. Seeing the Christian culture of the fourteenth andfifteenth centuries as a paradoxical affirmation of the glory and the threat of the natural world,Bynum's study suggests a new understanding of the background to the sixteenth-century reformations,both Protestant and Catholic. Moving beyond cultural study of "the body"—a fieldshe helped to establish—Bynum argues that Western attitudes toward body and person must beplaced in the context of changing conceptions of matter itself. Her study has broad theoreticalimplications, suggesting a new approach to the study of material culture and religious practice.
作者簡介
Caroline Walker Bynum is Professor of Medieval European History, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, and University Professor emerita at Columbia University. She is the author of Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion (Zone Books, 1990, 1992) and Metamorphosis and Identity (Zone Books, 2001, 2005).
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