Fragmentation and Redemption (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Caroline Walker Bynum
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Religion and spirituality, Sociology, Anthropology
- Subjects: Gender roles, Religion, Spiritual life or spirituality, Christianity, Women, Mysticism, Jesus Christ, Middle Ages, Mind and body, Sacraments
Form and Content
The seven essays collected in Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion were composed and published in various books and journals between 1982 and 1989. Although they were not designed to have a unifying thematic structure, they all address ways of understanding how issues concerning gender and the physical body were expressed in medieval religion. Most of the essays reveal how women’s experience of religion differed from the male-dominated view and practice of religion during the Middle Ages. They assert...
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