Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe

by Caroline Walker Bynum

Book Overview

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 such activities as bleeding, weeping,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1935408100
• ISBN13: 9781935408109
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Zone Books
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher