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Christian Materiality - An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe (Paperback)
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Christian Materiality - An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe (Paperback)
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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, and walking
about. Challenging Christians both to seek ever more frequent
encounters with miraculous matter and to turn to an inward piety
that rejected material objects of devotion, such phenomena were by
the fifteenth century at the heart of religious practice and
polemic. In Christian Materiality, Caroline Walker Bynum describes
the miracles themselves, discusses the problems they presented for
both church authorities and the ordinary faithful, and probes the
basic scientific and religious assumptions about matter that lay
behind them. She also analyzes the proliferation of religious art
in the later Middle Ages and argues that it called attention to its
materiality in sophisticated ways that explain both the animation
of images and the hostility to them on the part of iconoclasts.
Seeing the Christian culture of the fourteenth and fifteenth
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 the cultural study of "the
body"-a field she helped to establish-Bynum argues that Western
attitudes toward body and person must be placed in the context of
changing conceptions of matter itself. Her study has broad
theoretical implications, suggesting a new approach to the study of
material culture and religious practice.
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