Caroline Walker Bynum

          Christian Materiality:

An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe

                  Introduction(s)

 

   With Christopher Roman, Jennifer Feltman, and Angela Bennett Segler

Primary sources discussed include: 

• St. Foy in Conques

• The Rothschild Canticles (pictured here)

      Yale, Beinecke Library MS 404

• The Book of Margery Kempe

• Julian of Norwich

• Bernard of Clairvaux

• Gregory of Nissa

• Augustine

 

Chapter One: Visual Matter

With Christopher Roman, Jennifer Feltman, and Angela Bennett Segler

Topics discussed include: 

• Medieval Image Theory

• Medieval O.O.O. : the object always withdraws from complete human knowledge

• Seeing and not seeing in reliquaries

• Interactive Art: Use/Appropriation/Misuse

• Art and Optics

• Living Matter

• Matter = "that which changes"