Eleven essays that focus on the competing eschatologies of the Middle Ages.

In the period between 1200 and 1500 in western Europe, a number of religious women gained widespr...

'These studies . . . not only illuminate the past with a fierce and probing light but also rai...

From an acclaimed historian, a mesmerizing account of how medieval European Christians envisioned...

From the Introduction, by Caroline Walker Bynum: The opportunity to rethink and republish...

An exploration of the roles of metamorphosis and hybridity in the establishment of personal ident...

Last ThingsDeath and the Apocalypse in the Middle AgesEdited by Caroline Walker Bynum and Paul Fr...

Caroline Walker Bynum examines diverse medieval texts to show how women were able to appropriate ...

'During the high Middle Ages many of the devout really did address Jesus as mother and depict the...

Bynum argues that Christ's blood as both object and symbol was central to late medieval art, lite...

In the period between 1150 and 1550, an increasing number of Christians in western Europe made pi...

'Between the twelfth and the sixteenth centuries, European Christians used in worship a plethora ...