Dissimilar Similitudes Devotional Objec Caroline Walker Bynum Hardcover-image

Dissimilar Similitudes Devotional Objec Caroline Walker Bynum Hardcover

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Number of Pages: 344 Pages Format: Hardcover Publisher: Zone Books Author: Caroline Walker Bynum Language: English Illustrator: Yes Item Width: 6.3 in ISBN: 9781942130376 Item Height: 1.3 in Publication Year: 2020 Item Length: 9.3 in Book Title: Dissimilar Similitudes : Devotional Objects in Late Medieval Europe Genre: Religion, History Item Weight: 18.3 Oz gtin13: 9781942130376 Topic: Christianity / General, History, World, Europe / Medieval Country of Origin: United States

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Title: Dissimilar Similitudes: Devotional Objects in Late Medieval Europe Author: Bynum, Caroline Walker Publisher: Zone Books Binding: Hardcover Pages: 344 Dimensions: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.30d Product Weight: 1.45 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9781942130376 From an acclaimed historian, a mesmerizing account of how medieval European Christians envisioned the paradoxical nature of holy objects Between the twelfth and the sixteenth centuries, European Christians used a plethora of objects in worship, not only prayer books, statues, and paintings but also pieces of natural materials, such as stones and earth, considered to carry holiness, dolls representing Jesus and Mary, and even bits of consecrated bread and wine thought to be miraculously preserved flesh and blood. Theologians and ordinary worshippers alike explained, utilized, justified, and warned against some of these objects, which could carry with them both anti-Semitic charges and the glorious promise of heaven. Their proliferation and the reaction against them form a crucial background to the European-wide movements we know today as "reformations" (both Protestant and Catholic). In a set of independent but interrelated essays, Caroline Bynum considers some examples of such holy things, among them beds for the baby Jesus, the headdresses of medieval nuns, and the footprints of Christ carried home from the Holy Land by pilgrims in patterns cut to their shape or their measurement in lengths of string. Building on and going beyond her well-received work on the history of materiality, Bynum makes two arguments, one substantive, the other methodological. First, she demonstrates that the objects themselves communicate a paradox of dissimilar similitude--that is, that in their very details they both image the glory of heaven and make clear that that heaven is beyond any representation in earthly things. Second, she uses the theme of likeness and unlikeness to interrogate current practices of comparative history. Suggesting that contemporary students of religion, art, and culture should avoid comparing things that merely "look alike," she proposes that humanists turn instead to comparing across cultures the disparate and perhaps visually dissimilar objects in which worshippers as well as theorists locate the "other" that gives religion enduring power. Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer

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