Date/Time
Date(s) - 9 Nov 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location
The CUNY Graduate Center
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The Anthropomorphic and the Other: Medieval Holy Objects in Comparative Perspective
Caroline Walker Bynum, Professor emerita of Medieval European History at the Institute for Advanced Study, and University Professor emerita at Columbia University
Students of comparative religion, cognitive scientists, art historians, and historians sometimes use paradigms from non-western religions to raise questions about the role of material objects in Christianity. Recently, such discussion has focused on images and controversies about them. In her talk, Prof. Bynum argues that the most important material manifestation of the holy in the western European Middle Ages was the Eucharist and suggests both that understanding it is enhanced by the use of comparative material and that considering it as a case study of divine materiality leads to a more sophisticated formulation of comparative paradigms.
Friday, November 9, 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
CUNY Graduate Center, Segal Theatre
365 Fifth Avenue, New York