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... as well as religious, and in religious terms is said to cover not only the Catholic and Protestant quietisms (most properly so called) of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but also the proto-quietisms of the medieval Western church and reputedly quietist aspects of the Gnostic, Eastern...

... conversations in historical scholarship relevance to academic conversations relevance to public conversations late medieval religious culture the “material turn” In a graduate seminar, “Late Medieval Religion—Conversations and Controversies,” I have had students read major publications and discuss how...

... off as unworthy of a serious study of the Middle Ages, to argue for the profound meaning and power they held for medieval women and men. In challenging long-held interpretations about the religious culture of the Middle Ages as dualist, Holy Feast and Holy Fast offered evidence that an approach...

[email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 Caroline Walker Bynum material culture studies objects late medieval Christian spirituality visual theology How strange that the author of Jesus as Mother , some three decades after writing it, would publish two important works...

... authorities. Woman's religious role as inspired vessel had come to seem utterly different from man's role as priest, preacher, and leader by virtue of clerical office. 19 When comparing late medieval clerical attitudes to female mystical sanctity and to diabolic witchcraft, we may now ask, based...

... not only to Bynum's work but to medieval intellectual history altogether. It showed me new possibilities for thinking about a religious culture that had once seemed to me flat and joyless, a “dark age” whose art I had nonetheless come to find thrilling. Anna Harrison's essay in this symposium lays out...

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.... Rather, they extended medieval rules that had aimed to make the religious identity of Muslims, Jews, and Christians visu- ally apparent. Unfortunately, Constable died before finishing this marvelous book. She did not have the time to write a conclusion. In the introduction, she emphasized historical...

...Caroline Walker Bynum Powell Amy Knight , Depositions: Scenes from the Late Medieval Church and the Modern Museum ( New York : Zone Books , 2012 ), 376 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS Amy Knight Powell, Depositions: Scenes from...

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...Stuart Clark Chesters Timothy , Ghost Stories in Late Renaissance France: Walking by Night ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2011 ), 283 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS Amy Knight Powell, Depositions: Scenes from the Late Medieval...

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..., with regard to ritual and gender‐based religious practices in the Christian West, and with respect to similarities that might be claimed between elements of Christian and non‐Christian cultures. Her thoughts about morphology, materiality, and gender extend beyond medieval Europe to the world at large. Her...

..., became wildly popular in Arabic- speaking societies, and was trans- lated into several other languages as well (including Persian, Hebrew, French, and Spanish). Some might assume that its translation and its popularity among Euro- pean audiences show a love or at least respect for Muslim cultures...

...: Scenes from the Late Medieval Church and the Modern Museum (New York: Zone Books, 2012), 376 pp. Amy Knight Powell has written a brilliant book, impossible to summarize or do justice to in a short review. Understanding medieval images of the deposition...

...Matthew Mutter Bellah Robert N. , Religion in Human Evolution ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2011 ), 784 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS Amy Knight Powell, Depositions: Scenes from the Late Medieval Church...

...Simone Roberts Berlant Lauren , Cruel Optimism ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2011 ), 342 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS Amy Knight Powell, Depositions: Scenes from the Late Medieval Church and the Modern Museum...

...Wayne Andersen Cohen-Solal Annie , Leo and His Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli ( New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2010 ), 534 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS Amy Knight Powell, Depositions: Scenes from the Late Medieval Church...

...Andrew P. Tuck The Journals of Spalding Gray , ed. Casey Nell ( New York : Knopf , 2011 ), 368 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS Amy Knight Powell, Depositions: Scenes from the Late Medieval Church and the Modern Museum (New...