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...Caroline Walker Bynum Peter Dronke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. xi + 338 pp. $54.50, cloth; $15.95, paper. Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 REVIEWS Women Writers of the Middle Ages: A Critical Study of Textsfrom Perpetua (f...

...Hester Goodenouch Gelber Caroline Walker Bynum. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics, 1987. xvi + 444 pp. $29.95. © 1989 University of Washington 1987 HESTER GOODENOUGH GELBER 28 1...

... imagery and family experience, particularly weaning experience in the case of the feeding imagery Bynum investigates, need not be reductionist and might illuminate the poignancy and intensity of late-medieval reli- gious emotion. In summarizing the riches of Holy Feast and Holy Fast...

.... By CAROLINEWALKER BYNUM.Berkeley and London: University of Cali- fornia Press, The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics, 1987. xvi + 444 pp. $29.95. Holy Feast and Hob Fast is an intricate and brilliant book. In a wide- ranging and rigorous argument, Bynum tries to describe...

... trestouz ceulz qui sont a nestre” (Advocacie, 1-3). See also Bernard de Clairvawc’s advice to priests: “Be gentle, avoid harshness, do not resort to blows, expose your breasts” (sermon 23, cited in Caroline Walker Bynum, Jesus as Mother: Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middle Ages...

... lie at the heart of this book. In dialogue with the whole range of recent studies of the body in society (undertaken by scholars from Caroline Walker Bynum to Carolyn Dinshaw, from Peter Brown to Miri Rubin), Holsinger’s project is to write a history of medieval culture through the metaphorics...

... deal more about “the world around them about truth and self, cosmos and destiny, suffer- ing and friendship, than we have been accustomed to assume. CAROLINEWALKER BYNUM University of Washington Chaucer and the Poets: An Essay on “Troilus...

... of Havelberg, whose exegesis of Mary and Martha elevates the mixed life of contemplation and service over pure con- templation for the first time (Epistolu upologetica, in PL, CLXXXVIII, 1131-32). However, Caroline W. Bynum has discouraged attempts to isolate either the canons or the Pre...

.... On the image of a female God who dies to give birth to the world, see Caroline Walker Bynum, Jesus as Mother: Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middb Ages (Berkeley:University of California Press, 1982), p . 110-69. 22 On this point, see the poet’s admission that “!is tale beo florisshed...

.... $32.95. Bynum, Caroline Walker. Holy Fecisl nnd Hob Fask The tkligzous SigniJiccince oJFood to Mediarcil Wowten. Berkeley and London: University of California Press. 1987. xvi + 444 pp. 329.95. Crossley-Holland, Kevin (editor). he Oxjbrtl Book of me1 Verse. Oxford and New York: Oxford...

... Orient (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987); Caroline Walker Bynum,Jesus as Mother: Studies in thSpzri- tuality of the High Middle Ages (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982);Averil Cameron and AmClie Kuhrt, eds., Impof Women in Antiquity (Detroit: Wayne State University...

... as to whether the origi- nal text said that she had or had not fasted on previous days. mSee Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast and Holy Fmt: The Retigio2ls Signijicance ofFood to Meditwal Women, New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), chaps...

... of the crowd” (26). 13  Caroline Walker Bynum, “Jesus as Mother and Abbot as Mother: Some Themes in Twelfth-­Century Cistercian Writing,” Harvard Theological Review 70 (1977): 257  –  84 . 14  Matthew Arnold, “The Study of Poetry,” in The Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold, ed. R...

...–24; André Cabassut, “Curiosit in Dictionnaire de spiritualité, ed. Marcel Viller et al. (Paris: Beauchesne, 1937–94), vol. 2, cols. 2654–62; Jean Céard, ed., La curiosité à la Renaissance (Paris: Société Française d’Edition d’Enseignement Supérieur, 1986); Caroline Walker Bynum, “Wonder...