Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum

1 Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987). Page references are given in parentheses in the main text. Some of her notable books include, 'Holy Feast and Holy Fast' (Philip Schaff Prize), 'Fragmentation and Redemption' (Trilling Prize & Award for Excellence from AAR), 'The Resurrection of the Body' (Jacques Barzun Prize of the American Philosophical Society & Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize of Phi Beta Kappa), 'Wonderful Blood' (Gründler Prize, Haskins Medal of the Medieval Academy of America, & Award for Excellence from AAR), and 'Christian Materiality.' She is a member and past president of the Medieval Academy of America and served as the AHA President for 1996. Caroline Walker Bynum, Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Zone Books, 201 1). She is currently working on Christian devotional objects in cross-cultural perspective. Recent work includes a study of the cult of Christ's blood in northern Europe and research into the continuity of medieval pious practices in Reformation Germany.

Her work on religious conceptions of the female body and on the medieval understanding of person as a psychosomatic unity helped create the new interest in the history of the body.

She has written on twelfth-century monastic movements, on women's piety, on theological concepts of bodily resurrection, on gendered symbols in late medieval spiritual writing, and on death and apocalypse. Her research focuses on the religious and intellectual history of late medieval Europe. In the 1980s, her book Holy Feast and Holy Fast was instrumental in introducing the concept of gender into Medieval Studies.

Professor Caroline Walker Bynum is the Professor emerita of Medieval European History at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton and University Professor emerita at Columbia University.

Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum