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Vitae, 2000 Caroline Walker Bynum Born:
May 10, 1941
Marital Status: married Children: 1
Address (home):
(office): 410 Riverside Dr., #101
Department of History New York, New York 10025
Fayerweather Hall 611 (212) 865-7081 (home phone) Columbia
University New York,
New York 10027 (212)
854-2414 or 4646 Education
and Degrees: Henry Grady High School, Atlanta,
GA. 1954-58 Radcliffe College
1958-60 University of Michigan: B.A.
(with high honors) 1960-62 Harvard University: M.A. 1963;
Ph.D. 1969 1962-69 University of Chicago: Doctor
of Letters h.c. l992 Colgate University; and Northwestern
University: Doctor of Letters
h.c. l996 General Theological Seminary
in New York: Doctor of Divinity h.c.
l996 Southern Methodist University:
Doctor of Letters h.c. 1997 Wesleyan University: Doctor of
Letters h.c. 1998 University of Toronto: Doctor
of Letters h.c. 1999 Teaching
and University Positions: Assistant Prof., History Dept., Harvard University,
1969-73 Assistant Prof., Dept. of Church History, Harvard Divinity School, 1973-74;
Assoc. Prof., 1974-76 Assoc. Prof., History Dept., University of Washington,
1976-81 Professor of History, University of Washington, 1981-1988 (also adjunct professor in Religious Studies
and Women's Studies) Professor of History, Columbia
University, 1988- 1999; holder of Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Chair in History, l990-99 Dean of the School of General
Studies and Associate Vice President of Arts and Sciences for Undergraduate Education, l993-94 University Professor, 1999- present Fellowships,
Awards, and Honors: Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1962-63 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, Sept., 1978 to March,
1979 Distinguished Teacher Award, University of Washington,
1981 N.E.H. Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, 1983-84 Fellow, Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College,
1983-84 Solomon Katz Distinguished Lecturer in the Humanities, U.W. Winter Quarter,
1984 Berkshire Prize for Best Historical Article Written by a Woman, 1985, for
"Women Mystics...." President, Medieval Association of the Pacific,
1986-88 MacArthur Fellow, July, 1986
- July, 1991 Nelson Prize for best article,
awarded by the Renaissance Society of America, 1987, for "The Body of Christ...." Senior Scholar, The Getty Center for the Arts and Humanities, 1987-88 Governor's Award of the State of Washington, May, l988, for Holy Feast,
Holy Fast Fellow, Medieval Academy of America, elected l989 Philip Schaff prize of the ASCH/AHA for the best book in any field of Church
History by an American, l989, for Holy Feast, Holy Fast Honorary member Phi Beta Kappa, New York Delta Chapter, elected December,
l991 President of American Catholic Historical Association,
elected l993 Trilling Prize for the Best Book by a Columbia Faculty Member, l992, for
Fragmentation and Redemption Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters,
awarded by the University of Chicago, l992 Award for Excellence in the Study
of Religion: Analytical-Descriptive Category, for Fragmentation and Redemption, given by the American
Academy of Religion, l992 Member,
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected l993 Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu
Berlin, l994-95 President, The American Historical
Association, l996 Vice-President and President,
Medieval Academy of America, l996-l998 Member,
American Philosophical Society, elected 1995 Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize of
Phi Beta Kappa given for the best book of the year on "the intellectual and cultural condition of man,"
December, l995, for The Resurrection of the Body Honorary
Doctor of Humane Letters, awarded by Colgate University, l996 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters,
awarded by Northwestern University, l996 Honorary Doctor of Divinity,
awarded by General Theological Seminary, l996 Jacques Barzun Prize for the
best work in cultural history, given by the American Philosophical Society for The Resurrection of the Body,
November, l996 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters,
awarded by Southern Methodist University, l997 Presidential Award for Outstanding
Teaching, Columbia University, May, l997 Honorary
Doctor of Letters, awarded by Wesleyan University, May, l998 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities,
Chosen by NEH, March, 1999 Honorary Doctor of Letters, awarded
by the University of Toronto, 1999 Warburg Professor, Aby Warburg
Stiftung, Hamburg, Germany, January-June, 2000 Professional
Memberships: American Historical Association Medieval Academy of America American Society of Church History American Catholic Historical Association American Academy of Religion Hagiography Society Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Society for Values in Higher Education (elected, 1977) American Society for the Study
of Religion (elected, 1986) Renaissance Society of America Medieval Club of New York American Academy of Arts and
Sciences (elected, l993) American Philosophical Society
(elected, l995) Professional
Service: Co-Chair, Committee on the Status of Women at Harvard,
1970-71 Co-Author (with M. Walzer), The Status of Women in the Faculty of Arts
and Sciences, Harvard, 1972 Member of Board of Editors, Harvard Theological
Review, 1973-76 Co-Editor, Harvard Dissertations in Religion, 1974-76 Member of Board of Editors, Women's Studies: An Inter-Disciplinary Journal, 1973-1985 Chairperson, Program Committee, for the 1979 meeting of the Pacific Coast
Branch of the American Historical Association Chair, Elliott Prize Committee, Medieval Academy
of America, 1981 Chair, Faculty Seminar on Religion and Gender, University of Washington,
1981-83 Member, Council, Medieval Academy of America, 1983-86; member, Planning
Committee for Future of the Academy, 1983-84 Member, Council, Medieval Association of the Pacific, 1977-80; Vice-President,
1984-86; President, 1986-88 Member, Council, Pacific Coast Branch of American Historical Association,
1985-87 Member, Executive Committee, American Society of Church History, 1978-81;
Research Committee, 1985-87 Member of Board of Editors, Genders:
A Journal of Gender and Society, l988-l992 Member, Professional Division, American Historical Association, l988-1990 Member, Executive Committee, American Society for the Study of Religion,
l989-91 Organizer, Workshop on Medieval Religious Women in Honor of Mary Martin
McLaughlin, Barnard/Columbia, February 23, l991 Member, Governing Board, Society of Fellows, Columbia University, l990-l993 Member, Board of Editors, Regents Studies in Medieval Culture, University
of Nebraska Press; new series under title Stylus, University of Michigan
Press (general editor, Eugene Vance), l990-1999 Consultant for Medieval History to the new edition of The Columbia Encyclopedia,
l990-94 Member, Board of Editors, Columbia Records of Civilization, new series;
Columbia University Press, l989-present Member, Board of Editors, Common Knowledge,
l991-1999 Acting Chair, Interdisciplinary
Committee on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Columbia University, fall, l991 Chair, Women's History Series,
Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Columbia, l991-92 Vice-President, American Catholic
Historical Association, l992-93; President, l993-94 Member, Board of Editors, Magistra
(formerly Vox Benedictina), l990-present Member, Board of Editors, Encyclopedia
of Women in World Religions (general editor, Serinity Young), Simon and Schuster,
l993-1994 Member, Board of Trustees, National
Humanities Center, Research Triangle, North Carolina, l993-1999 Member, Board of Editors, Journal
of the American Academy of Religion, l994-present Co-Chair, Committee on Undergraduate
Education, Columbia University, l993-94 Author,
Report on Reforming the Major at Columbia University, l994 President, American Historical
Association, l996 Vice-President,
Medieval Academy of America, l996-97; President, l997-98 Member, Board of Editors, History
of Religions, l997-present Member,
Board of Editors, Journal of Marian Studies, l997-present Member, Board of Editors, Church
History, l997-present Member, Fellowship Selection
Committee, Yad-Hanadiv Foundation, Jerusalem, Israel, 2000 Chair, Advisory Committee to
Dean Drew Faust, The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 2000 Teaching: I have taught all aspects of late antique and medieval history
(political, military, social, economic, religious, intellectual, etc.);
Church history from the early church through the Reformation; intellectual
history from Plato to the seventeenth century.
I have lectured to large groups of undergraduates (my church
history survey at Harvard Divinity had 125 enrolled my last quarter
there and at UW my survey course on the Middle Ages regularly enrolled
80-90) and have offered tutorials to small groups of honors undergraduates. I have contributed to the continuing education programs at the University
of Washington and at Columbia (especially to Columbia's Master of Arts
in Liberal Studies program). I
have taught professional students training for ministry and have done
extensive work in research seminars with Harvard University, Columbia
University, and University of Washington graduate students in History,
Art History, Comparative Literature, Women's Studies, and Religion.
At present, I am the sponsor of dissertations in the departments
of History, Art History and English and Comparative Literature. Current
Research: Connected to the work I have been doing for the past ten
years on the history of the body, I am at the moment beginning a new
project concerning attitudes toward change and identity (both biological and psychological/spiritual) in the second half
of the twelfth century. I am
considering (among other matters) eucharistic theology, hexameral literature,
poetic accounts of "nature," certain especially "bodily"
miracles, other-world journeys, Ovidian poetry, commentaries on Aristotle's
Generation and Corruption, and alchemy. Publications: Books: Docere Verbo et Exemplo: An Aspect of Twelfth-Century Spirituality, Harvard
Theological Monographs (Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press, 1979). Jesus as Mother: Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middle
Ages (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press,
1982). Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval
Women (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press,
1987) (awarded Governor's award
of the State of Washington in l988 and the Philip Schaff prize of the
American Society for Church History in l989).
A French translation appeared in l994 from Editions du Cerf under
the title Jeûnes et festins sacrés: les femmes et la nourriture dans
la spiritualité médiévale. Fragmentation and Redemption:
Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion (New York: Zone Books, l991) (awarded the Trilling
Prize in l992 and the AAR Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion:
Analytical-Descriptive Category, l992). A German translation appeared in February, l996, from Suhrkamp under
the title Fragmentierung und Erlösung. The Resurrection of the Body
in Western Christianity, 200-1336 (New York: Columbia University
Press, l995) (awarded Phi Beta Kappa Emerson prize for best book on
"the intellectual and cultural condition of man," l995, and
the Jacques Barzun prize of the American Philosophical Society for the
best book in cultural history, l996).
Metamorphosis and Identity (New
York: Zone Books, 2001), to appear.
Editions
and Edited Volumes: A Select Bibliography of History, 3rd ed., ed. Caroline W. Bynum et al. (Cambridge, Massachusetts:
Henry Adams History Club, History Dept., Harvard University, l966). Statuta Casinensia (Saec. (XIII-XIV) (an edition of custumals of Monte Cassino with introduction,
done in collaboration with T. Leccisotti), in Corpus Consuetudinum
Monasticarum, vol. 4 (Siegburg: Francis Schmitt, 1972), 191-258. Gender and Religion: On the Complexity of Symbols, ed.
Caroline Bynum, Stevan Harrell, and Paula Richman, introduction by C.
Bynum (Boston: Beacon Press, 1986). Body-Part Reliquaries, ed.
Caroline Bynum and Paula Gerson, Gesta 36.1 (l997), special issue. Last Things: Death and the Apocalypse
in the Middle Ages, ed. Caroline Walker Bynum and
Paul Freedman (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000).
Articles: "Stephen of Paris and his Commentary on the
Benedictine Rule," Revue
bénédictine 81 (1971), 67-91. "The Spirituality of Regular Canons in the
Twelfth Century: A New Approach,"
Mediaevalia et Humanistica, new series 4 (1973), 3-24. "The Cistercian Conception of Community:
An Aspect of Twelfth-Century Spirituality," Harvard Theological
Review 68.3/4 (1975), 273-286. "Jesus as Mother and Abbot as Mother: Some Themes in Twelfth-Century Cistercian Writing,"
Harvard Theological Review 70.3/4 (1977), 257-284. "Did the Twelfth Century Discover the Individual?"
Journal of Ecclesiastical History 31 (1980), 1-17. "Maternal Imagery in Twelfth-Century Cistercian
Writing," in Noble Piety and Reformed Monasticism, Studies
in Medieval Cistercian History, 7, Cistercian Studies Series, 65 (Kalamazoo,
Michigan: Cistercian Publications, 1981), 68-80. "Women Mystics and Eucharistic Devotion in
the Thirteenth Century," Women's Studies 11 (1984), 179-214
(awarded Berkshire Prize for 1985). "Women's Stories, Women's Symbols: A Critique of Victor Turner's Theory of Liminality,"
in Anthropology and the Study of Religion, ed. Frank Reynolds
and Robert Moore (Chicago, Illinois: Center for the Scientific Study
of Religion, 1984), 105-125. "Fast, Feast and Flesh: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval
Women," Representations 11 (Summer, 1985), pp. 1-25. [Excerpt reprinted in Richard Golden, ed.,
The Social History of Western Civilization, vol. 1 (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987).] "Disease and Death in the Middle Ages,"
review article, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 8 (1985), pp.
97-102. " '...And Woman His Humanity': Gender Imagery in the Religious Writing of
The Later Middle Ages," in Gender and Religion, ed. Caroline
Bynum, Stevan Harrell and Paula Richman (l986). "The Complexity of Symbols," in Gender
and Religion, ed. C. Bynum, S. Harrell and P. Richman. "The Body of Christ in the Later Middle Ages:
A Reply to Leo Steinberg," Renaissance Quarterly
39.3 (Autumn, 1986), pp. 399-439 (awarded the Nelson prize for 1986). "Religious Women in the Later Middle Ages,"
World Spirituality: An Encyclopedic History of the Religious Quest,
vol. 17: Christian Spirituality: High Middle Ages and Reformation,
ed. Jill Raitt (New York: Crossroad,
l987), pp. 121-139. "Mystik und Askese im Leben mittelalterlicher
Frauen: Einige Bemerkungen zu den Typologien von Max Weber und Ernst
Troeltsch," in Max Webers Sicht des okzidentalen Christentums:
Interpretation und Kritik, ed. Wolfgang Schluchter (Frankfurt:
Suhrkamp, 1988), pp. 355-382.
"Holy Anorexia in Modern Portugal," review
article, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 12 (l988), pp. 259-268. "The Female Body and Religious Practice in
the Later Middle Ages," Zone 3: Fragments for a History
of the Body, 1 (l989), pp. 160-219. [Appeared in Italian tr. in
Donne e Fede: Santita e Vita Religiosa in Italia, ed. L. Scaraffia
and G. Zarri (Rome and Bari: La Terza, l994), pp. 115-56.] "Preface," Hildegard of Bingen: Scivias, ed. and tr. Mother Columba
Hart and Dr. Jane Bishop, Classics of Western Spirituality (New York:
Paulist Press, l990). "Bodily Miracles and the Resurrection of the
Body in the High Middle Ages," in Belief in History, ed.
Thomas Kselman (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, l991), pp.
68-106. [Excerpt reprinted in French tr. in L'Ane: Le Magazin Freudien
56 (l993), 39-41.] "Material Continuity, Personal Survival, and
the Resurrection of the Body: A Scholastic Discussion in its Medieval
and Modern Contexts," History of Religions 30.1 (August,
l990), pp. 51-82. Review article on Michael Camille's The Gothic
Idol, in The Art Bulletin 72.2 (June, l990), pp. 331-332. "Writing Body History: Some Historiographical and Autobiographical
Reflections," Disability Studies Quarterly (April, l992),
pp. 14-17. "Images of the Resurrection Body in the Theology
of Late Antiquity," Catholic Historical Review 80.2 (April,
l994), pp. 215-37. "Faith Imagining the Self: Somatomorphic Soul
and Resurrection Body in Dante's Divine Comedy," in Faithful
Imagining: Essays in Honor of Richard R. Niebuhr, ed. Sang Hyun
Lee, Wayne Proudfoot, and Albert Blackwell (Atlanta, Ga.: Scholar's
Press, l995), pp. 83-106. "Why All the Fuss About the Body? A Medievalist's Perspective," Critical Inquiry 22 (Autumn, l995),
pp. 1-33. [German version appeared
in Historische Anthropologie:
Kultur, Gesellschaft, Alltag, 4.1 (1996), pp. 1-34; English version
reprinted in Victoria Bonnell and Lynn Hunt, ed., After the Cultural
Turn (University of California Press, 1999) ]. "The
Last Eurocentric Generation," Perspectives 34.2 (February,
l996), pp. 3-4. [with Roger Adelson], "Interview with Caroline
Walker Bynum," The Historian 59.1 (Fall, l996), pp. 1-17.
"Wonder,"
The American Historical Review 102.1 (February, l997), pp. 1-26. [with Paula Gerson], "Body-Part Reliquaries
and Body Parts in the Middle Ages," in Body-Part Reliquaries,
ed. Caroline Bynum and Paula Gerson, Gesta 36.1 (l997), pp. 3-7. "Mechtild of Magdeburg," The Encyclopedia
of Women and World Religions, ed. Serinity Young, 2 vols. (New York:
Macmillan, 1999), 2: 638-39. "Death and Resurrection in the Middle Ages,"
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 142.4
(l998), pp. 589-96. "Metamorphosis, or Gerald and the Werewolf,"
Speculum 73 (October, l998), pp. 987-1013. "Foreword," in Gendered Voices: Medieval
Saints and Their Interpreters, ed. Catherine M. Mooney (Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, l999). "Miracles and Marvels: The Limits of Alterity,"
in Vita Religiosa im Mittelalter: Festschrift für Kaspar Elm zum
70. Geburtstag (Berlin, 1999), pp. 799-817. [with Paul Freedman] "Introduction," to
Last Things: Eschatology and Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, ed.
Caroline Bynum and Paul Freedman (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 2000). “Das Blut und die Körper Christi im Mittelalter:
Eine Asymmetrie,” Vorträge aus dem Warburg Haus, to appear. Book
Reviews: review of Avicenna Latinus, Liber De Anima seu
Sextus de naturalibus, IV - V.
Edition critique...(Leiden:
E. J. Brill, 1968) in Speculum, 45 (1970), 266-67. review of James E. Biechler, The Religious Language
of Nicholas of Cusa (Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press and the American Academy of Religion, 1975) in The
American Historical Review, 81 (1976), p. 1091. review of Gerhard Bauer, Claustrum Animae: Untersuchungen
zur Geschichte der Metaphor vom Herzen als Kloster I: Entstehungsgeschichte
(Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1973) in Speculum, 51 (1976), 713-14. review of E. Randolph Daniel, The Franciscan
Concept of Mission in the High Middle Ages (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1975) and David
L. Jeffrey, The Early English Lyric and Franciscan Spirituality
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska
Press, 1975) in Medievalia et Humanistica, n.s. no. 7 (1976),
195-97. review of André Vauchez, La Spiritualité du moyen
âge occidental, VIIIe-XIIe siècles (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1975) in Speculum, 52 (1977),
1064-66. review of Poverty in the Middle Ages, ed.
David Flood (Werl, Westphalia: Dietrich-Coelde-Verlag,
1975) in The Catholic Historical Review, 64 (1978), 297-98. review of Lester K. Little, Religious Poverty
and the Profit Economy in Medieval Europe (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1979) in The Journal
of Religion, 60 (1980), 347-49. review of A Book of Showings to the Anchoress
Julian of Norwich, ed. Edmund Colledge, O.S.A. and James Walsh,
S.J. (Toronto: Pontifical Institute
of Mediaeval Studies, 1978) in Church History, 49 (1980), 455-56. review of Hildegard of Bingen, Scivias, ed.
Adelgundis Führkötter, O.S.B., with Angela Carlevaris, O.S.B. (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1978) in Speculum, 55 (1980),
794-95. review of Jean Leclercq, Monks and Love in Twelfth-Century
France: Psycho-Historical Essays
(Oxford: Clarendon Press; New
York: Oxford University Press,
1979) in Speculum, 55 (1980), 595-97. review of Assistance et charité, Cahiers
de Fanjeaux, Collection d'histoire religieuse du Languedoc au XIIIe
et au debut du XIVe siècles, 13 (Toulouse: Edouard Privat, 1978) in
Speculum, 55 (1980), 92-94. review of Joseph H. Lynch, Simoniacal Entry into
Religious Life, 1000 to 1260: A
Social, Economic and Legal Study (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1976) in The Virginia Seminary Journal,
32 (1980), 40. review of Alexander Murray, Reason and Society
in the Middle Ages (Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1978) in The Journal of Religion, 61 (1981), 453-54. review of Jeffrey Richards, Consul of God:
The Life and Times of Gregory The Great (London:
Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980) in Church History, 51
(1982) 214-15. review of RB 1980: the Rule of St. Benedict in Latin and English with Notes, ed.
Timothy Fry et al. (Collegeville,
Minnesota: Liturgical Press,
1981) in Speculum, 57 (1982), 607-609. review of Marina Warner, Joan
of Arc: The Image of Female
Heroism (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981) in Church History, 52 (1983),
208-209. review of F. E. Peters, Children of Abraham: Judaism, Christianity, Islam (Princeton, 1982), in Middle
East Studies Association Bulletin, 17. 1 (July, 1983), 98-99. review of Peter Brown, Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity (Berkeley,
California: University of California
Press, 1982) in Church History, 53 (1984), 83-84. review of Donald Weinstein and Rudolph M. Bell, Saints and Society: The Two Worlds of Western Christendom, 1000-1700
(Chicago: The University of
Chicago Press, 1983),in Speculum, 59 (1984), 457-460. review of G. R. Evans, The Mind of St. Bernard of Clairvaux (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1983), in Church History, 54 (1985), 98-99. review of Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Joseph R. Strayer, vols.
1-4 (New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons, 1982-84), in Middle East Studies Association Bulletin,
18.2 (December, 1984), 255-57. review of Michael Goodich, Vita Perfecta: The Ideal of Sainthood in the Thirteenth Century (Stuttgart:
Anton Hiersemann, 1982), in Mystics Quarterly, 13.1 (March,
1987), 40-41. review of Brenda Bolton, The Medieval Reformation (London: Edward Arnold, 1983), in The Catholic Historical
Review (January, l987) 142-43. review of Peter Dronke, Women Writers of the Middle Ages: A Critical
Study of Texts from Perpetua (+203) to Marguerite Porete (+1310)
(Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1984), in Modern Language Quarterly, 46 (1985), 326-29. review of Jaroslav Pelikan, Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture
(New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1985), in Speculum, 61 (October, l986), 982-84. review of Peter Dinzelbacher and D. Bauer, eds., Frauenmystik im
Mittelalter (Ostfildern: Schwabenverlag,
1985), in The Catholic Historical Review (April, 1987), 318-319.
review of David Flusser, Jaroslav Pelikan and Justin Lang, Mary: Images of the Mother of Jesus in Jewish and
Christian Perspective (Philadelphia:
Fortress Press, 1986), in Church History, 57 (March, l988),
p. 118. review of Paul Lachance, The Spiritual Journey of the Blessed Angela
of Foligno According to the Memorial of Frater A. (Rome: Pontificium Atheneaum Antonianum, l984), in Church History,
57 (September, l988), pp. 359-60. review of Gillian Evans and Jean Leclercq, ed. and trans., Bernard of
Clairvaux: Selected Works, The Classics of Western Spirituality
(New York: Paulist Press, l987), in The Virginia Seminary Journal
41.1 (February, l989), pp. 45-46. review of James A. Brundage, Law, Sex and Christian Society in Medieval
Europe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, l987), in Journal
of Religion 69 (l989), pp. 402-403. review of Piero Camporesi, The Incorruptible Flesh: Bodily Mutation and
Mortification in Religion and Folklore, tr. T. Croft-Murray and
H. Elsom (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, l988), in The American
Historical Review 94.5 (December, l989), p. 1334. review of Peter Dinzelbacher and D. R. Bauer, eds., Religiöse Frauenbewegung
und mystische Frömmigkeit im Mittelalter (Cologne and Vienna: Böhlau,
l988), in The Catholic Historical Review 76 (l990), p. 121. review of Grace M. Jantzen, Julian of Norwich: Mystic and Theologian
(New York and Mahwah, N.J.: Paulist Press, l988), in Journal of Religion
70 (l990), pp. 310-311. review of Jean-Claude Schmitt, La Raison des gestes (Paris: Gallimard,
l989), in The American Historical Review 96 (October, l991),
p. 1158. review of Jeremy Cohen, "Be Fertile and Increase, Fill the Earth
and Master It": The Ancient and Medieval Career of a Biblical Text
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, l989), in The Catholic Historical
Review 77 (l991), pp. 658-59. brief notice of Thomas Laqueur, Making Sex: Body and Gender from the
Greeks to Freud (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, l990),
in Common Knowledge 1.1 (March, l992), p. 152. review of Histoire des femmes en Occident, ed. Georges Duby and Michelle
Perrot: vol. 2: Le moyen âge, ed. Christiane Klapisch-Zuber (Paris:
Plon, l991), in The American Historical Review 97.4 (October,
l992), pp. 1193-94. review of Colleen McDannell and Bernhard Lang, Heaven: A History
(New Haven and London: Yale University Press, l988), in Church History
62.2 (June, l993), pp. 315-17. review of Jeannine Horowitz and Sophia Menache, L'Humour en chaire: Le
rire dans l'Eglise médiévale (Geneva: Labor et Fides, l994), in
The American Historical Review 100.3 (June, l995), pp. 886-87.
review of Dyan Elliott, Spiritual
Marriage: Sexual Abstinence in Medieval Wedlock (Princeton: Princeton University Press, l993), in Theology
and Sexuality no. 3 (September,
l995), pp. 112-15. review of Karl F. Morrison, Understanding Conversion (Charlottesville:
University Press of Virginia, l992) and Conversion and Text: The
Cases of Augustine of Hippo, Herman-Judah, and Constantine Tsatsos
(Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, l992), in Church
History 63.4 (December, l994), pp. 608-10. review of Walter Vandereycken and Ron van Deth, From Fasting Saints to
Anorexic Girls: The History of Self-Starvation (New York: New York
University Press, l994), in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History
26.4 (Spring, l996), pp. 682-83. brief notice of Patrick J. Geary, Living with the Dead in the Middle
Ages (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, l994), in Common Knowledge
4.3 (Winter, l995), p. 156. brief notice of Jean-Claude Schmitt, Les Revenants: Les vivants et les
morts dans la société médiévale (Paris: Gallimard, l994), in Common Knowledge 4.2 (Fall, l995),
p. 115. brief notice of Beate Schuster,
Die freien Frauen: Dirnen und Frauenhauser im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert (Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag,
1995), in Common Knowledge
5.3 (Winter, l996), p. 66. review of Barbara Newman, From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in
Medieval Religion and Literature. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1995), in The Catholic Historical Review 82.3 (July, l996),
pp. 525-26. review of Jeffrey F. Hamburger,
Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent (Berkeley: University
of California Press, l997) in History of
Religions, 38 (1999), pp. 407-08.
review of André Vauchez, Sainthood
in the Later Middle Ages (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997) in The Journal of Social History
32.4 (1999), pp. 991-93. Talks and Lectures (since 1989): "Bodily Miracles and the Resurrection of the Body in the High Middle
Ages," plenary address, International Conference on Medieval Studies,
Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 7, l988; Medieval Seminar, Columbia University,
Oct. 11, l988; Otis Lecture, Wheaton College, March 1, l989; Ingersoll
Lecture on Immortality, Harvard Divinity School, March 2, l989; Throckmorton
lecture, Lewis and Clark College, March 28, l991. "The Context of the History of Doctrine," response to Jaroslav
Pelikan, "Patterns in the Development of Christian Doctrine,"
Lionel Trilling seminar, Columbia University, February 1, l989. "Seeds, Statues, or Whales: Metaphors for the Resurrection of the Body
in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries," plenary address, Medieval
Academy of America meeting, April 13, l989; address to Society of Fellows,
Columbia University, September, l989; lecture, Emory University, February,
l990; lecture, Princeton University, October, l990. "The Patristic Debate over Resurrection and Its Background in Religious
Practice," Sarah Lawrence College, May, l989; faculty seminar,
Princeton University, October, l990. "Images of the Resurrection of the Body in the Theology, Art and Popular
Religion of the Twelfth Century," William Church Memorial Lecture,
Brown University, November 2, l989. "Women's Miracles in the Later Middle Ages: How Do We Interpret Them?"
Fordham University, College at Lincoln Center, November 9, 1989. "Teaching Women's History: Some Special Problems Faced By Medievalists,"
Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida, November 30, l989. "Personal Survival, Material Continuity and the Resurrecton of the
Body: A Scholastic Debate in Its Medieval and Modern Contexts," Emory University, February, l990; a different
version delivered under similar title as the Heberle lecture, University
of Michigan, March, l990, and the plenary address to the American Academy
of Religion, New Orleans, November 19, l990. "In Praise of Fragments: History in the Comic Mode," faculty seminar,
University of Michigan Humanities Center, March, l990. "The Right Side of the Reliquary: Women's Experience and Male Interpretation,"
comment delivered at Eighth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women,
June 10, l990. "The Body as History," comment delivered at the American Academy
of Religion meeting, New Orleans, November 19, l990. " 'Am I My Body?' Medieval
Discussions of Bodily Resurrection and Some Modern Implications," Lionel Trilling Seminar, Columbia University,
February 20, l991. "Seeds, Statues and Whales: Images of Bodily Resurrection in the Western
Tradition," The ACLS Lectures in The History of Religion, delivered
at University of Chicago, Oct. 30-November 1, l991; University of California
at Berkeley, November 4-7, l991; Harvard University, March 12-13 and
19-20, l992; Sarah Lawrence College, April 9, 16, 23 and 30, l992; Pomona
College, Sept. 16-19, l992; University of Iowa, October 14-17, l992:
University of Indiana, Nov. 4-8, l992; Oberlin College, March 15-18,
l993; University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, March 31-April 3, l993;
Theological Hall, Ormond College, University of Melbourne, Melbourne,
Australia, July 20-29, l993. "Writing Body History," The New School for Social Research, December
5, l991; University of Toronto, January 11, l992. "Approaches to Gender in the Study of Religion," Talk for Graduate
Students in Anthropology and Archeology, New York University, December
5, l991. "The Resurrection Body and the Somatomorphic Soul: Eschatological Images
Between 1270 and 1336," Lecture for the Departments of History
and Philosophy, The University of Toronto, and the Pontifical Institute,
January 10, l992. "The Bones of the Saints and the Resurrection Body," Talk for the New York Hagiographical Society,
January 17, l992. "History: The State of the Discipline," Talk for the Society of
Fellows, Columbia University, March 31, l992. "Image, Text and Context in the Middle Ages," Talk for the series
"Double Talk," organized by the Art History Department, Columbia
University, April 3, l992. "Current Trends: Art, History and Literature," paper for Renaissance
Society of America meeting, Kansas City, April 15, l993. "The Idea of the Limited Good," Graduation Address, The Fieldston
School, The Bronx, NY, June, l993. "Thomas Aquinas and Dante: Two Views of the Human Person," Theological
Hall, Ormond College, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia,
July 27, l993. "New Approaches to Medieval History," Monash University, Melbourne,
Australia, July 30, l993; University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, August
2, l993. "Asceticism in Medieval Christianity," Theological College of
the University of Sydney, Australia, August 3, l993. "Teaching By Example," Convocation Address, Columbia University,
September, l993. "The Strange Power of Medieval Women," Midday Seminar Series,
Columbia University, December, l993. "Images of the Resurrection Body in the Theology of Late Antiquity,"
presidential address, American Catholic Historical Association meeting,
San Francisco, January 8, l994. "Death and Resurrection in Early Christianity," University Lecture,
Columbia University, April 13, l994. "Debts and Talents," Class Day Address, The School of General
Studies, Columbia University, May 17, l994. "Psychological Models and St. Elizabeth of Thuringia," Seminar
at the Freie Universitaet, Berlin, February 10, l995. "Recent Approaches to the History of the Body," Seminar at the
Central European University, Budapest, March 16, l995. "Dante and the Afterlife," Public Lecture, Central European University,
March 17, l995. "The Medieval Doctrine of Bodily Resurrection: Does It Have Implications
for a Theory of Gender?" Public
Lecture, The University of Copenhagen, Denmark, March 24, l995. "Love for the Body in the Middle Ages: Some Modern Implications of
a Medieval Attitude," Lecture in the Series: 'The Nature of Evidence,'
The Einstein Forum, Potsdam, Germany, April 26, l995. Also delivered: Deutsches Haus, Columbia University, September 13,
l995; as the Byrne lecture at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee,
October 19, l995; as the Mary Albertson lecture at Swarthmore College,
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, November 9, l995; and as a Humanities lecture
at Colgate University, February 22, l996. "The Eschatology of the Body in the Thirteenth Century," Medieval
Seminar, Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris, May 16, l995. "The Image of the Good Mother in the Later Middle Ages," La Mama:
Colloque du Institut Culturel Italien, Centre de Recherches sur l'Europe,
Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, 17-18 May, l995. "The Current Fuss About the Body: A Medievalist's Perspective,"
Seminaire d'histoire de la Médecine, Institut Louis Jeantet d'Histoire
de la Médecine, Université de Genève, May 22, l995. "Death and Redemption in the Middle Ages," lecture for the series
"Death, Extinction and the Future of Humanity," The University
of Michigan, March 11, l996. "Neither Supplementing nor Mainstreaming but Transforming: The Impact
of the History of Medieval and Early Modern Religious Women on General
History," Goettinger Gespraeche zur Geschichtswissenschaft, Conference
at the Max Planck Institut fuer Geschichte, Goettingen, July 26 and
27, l996. "Aproaches to Body History," Mellon-funded Graduate Colloquium,
University of Pennsylvania, November, l996. "Death and Resurrection in the Middle Ages," talk to the American
Philosophical Society, November, l996. "Wonder," presidential address, American Historical Association,
New York, January, l997. "Globalizing European History," talk for NYHCE, April 5, l997. "Response" to Colloquium on the Work of Caroline Walker Bynum,
Southern Methodist University, May 16, l997. "Miracles and Wonders," Convocation Address for the Graduate School
of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, May 20, l997. "Recent Approaches to Body History," Colloquium for the Faculty
Seminar in Religion, Washington and Lee University, May 21, l997. "Christian Corporeality," comment delivered at American Historical
Association meeting, Seattle, January 9, l998. "Metamorphosis, or Gerald and the Werewolf," presidential address,
Medieval Academy of America, Stanford, March 27, l998. "Comment," on "The Self Before Psychology," talk for
"Feminist Interventions" series, Columbia University, October
5, l998. "Medieval and Modern Eschatologies Compared, or Can There Be A Second
Millennium?" talk for the LSMA Millennium/Centennial series, Columbia
University, October 26, l998. "Holy Feast, Holy Fast: Ten Years Later," talk to the Barnard
and Columbia College Religion Majors, November 19, l998. “Metamorphosis and Identity in
the Western Tradition,” lecture for Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA, February 19, l999; also given as Phi Beta Kappa
Convocation Address at Washington and Lee University, March 12, 1999. “Miracles and Wonders: The Results
and Limits of Recent Scholarship,” lecture for Emory University History Department, February 22, l999. “Miracles, Marvels and the History
of the Body: A Discussion,” talk for Washington and Lee University Departments of Religion and English, March
12, 1999. “Shape and Story: Metamorphoses
in the Western Tradition,” The Jefferson Lecture, The Kennedy Center, Washington D.C., March, l999. “Change,” Baccalaureate Address,
Columbia University, May 16, 1999; somewhat different versions given to Columbia Fifth Reunion Dinner,
June 5, 1999, and to University of Toronto Commencement Convocation, June 7,
1999. "Attitudes
toward Miracle in the Twelfth Century," lecture, University of
Rochester, October 14, 1999; faculty seminar on the same material,
October 15. “Feminine Imagery in Medieval Spirituality,” lecture
at the University of Hamburg, May 9,
2000. “Monsters and Hybrids in Bernard of Clairvaux,” lecture for Mittelalterkreis, University of Hamburg, May 17, 2000. “Das Blut und die Körper Christi im Mittelalter: Eine
Asymmetrie,” Warburg lecture,
Aby Warburg Stiftung, Hamburg,
June 6, 2000; also delivered at the University of Cologne on June 30, 2000. “The Blood of Christ in the Later Middle Ages, with
Special Reference to Gerard of Cologne,”
Conference of the New England Medievalists, Yale University, October
13, 2000. |