Caroline Walker Bynum Christian materiality

an essay on religion in late medieval Europe

"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, weeping, bleeding, even walking about. Such phenomena posed a challenge to Christians, who, on the one hand sought ever more frequent encounters with miraculous matter and, on the other hand, turned toward an inward piety that rejected material...

Engels | 408 pagina's | Zone Books, New York | 2011

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