Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe by Caroline Walker Bynum

Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe

Caroline Walker Bynum

408 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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...

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