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Name
  
Caroline Bynum


Role
  
Medieval Historian

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Education
  
University of Michigan, Harvard University

Awards
  
MacArthur Fellowship, Jefferson Lecture

Books
  
Holy feast and holy fast, Christian Materiality: An Essay, Fragmentation and redemption, Jesus as Mother, Metamorphosis and Identity

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Caroline Walker Bynum, FBA (born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1941) is an American Medieval scholar. She is a University Professor emerita at Columbia University and Professor emerita of Western Medieval History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. She was the first woman to be appointed University Professor at Columbia. She is a former Dean of Columbia's School of General Studies, and served as President of the American Historical Association in 1996.

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Education and career

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Bynum received a B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1962 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1969. Her honors include the Jefferson Lecture, a MacArthur Fellowship, and fourteen honorary degrees including degrees from Harvard University, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pennsylvania. She taught at the Institute for Advanced Study from 2003-2011, Columbia University from 1988-2003, University of Washington from 1976-1988, and Harvard University from 1969-1976. In 2015, she was the Robert Janson-La Palma Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. Bynum's work has focused on the way medieval people understood the nature of the human body and its physicality in the context of larger theological questions and spiritual pursuits.

Works

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  • Christian Materiality An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe (2011)
  • Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond (2007), winner of the American Academy of Religion's 2007 Award for Excellence, the 2009 Gründler Prize, and the Haskins Medal of the Medieval Academy of America in 2011.
  • Metamorphosis and Identity (2005)
  • The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity: 200-1336 (1995) which received the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize from Phi Beta Kappa and the Jacques Barzun Prize of the American Philosophical Society.
  • Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion (1991), winner of the Trilling Prize for the Best Book by a Columbia Faculty Member and the Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in the Analytical-Descriptive Category from the American Academy of Religion
  • Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (1988)
  • Jesus as Mother: Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middle Ages (1984)
  • Awards

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  • Distinguished Teacher Award from the University of Washington (1981)
  • Berkshire Prize (1985)
  • MacArthur Fellowship (1986–9)
  • Philip Schaff Prize (1989)
  • Trilling Prize (1992)
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize (1995)
  • Barzun Prize (1996)
  • Columbia University, Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching (1997)
  • Jefferson Lecturer (1999)
  • Harvard University, Centennial Medal of the Harvard Graduate School (2001)
  • Mark van Doren Teaching Award of Columbia College (2002)
  • American Society of Church History, Distinguished Career Award (2005)
  • Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion (2007 and 1992)
  • Gründler Prize (2009)
  • Haskins Medal (2011)
  • Federal Republic of Germany, Order of Merit (2012)
  • Federal Republic of Germany, Grand Merit Cross with Star (2013)
  • In July 2017, Agnew was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.

    References

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