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Caroline Walker Bynum
Weeping Statues and Bleeding Bread
Tuesday 13 May
6pm Lecture
Villa Aurelia
L.go di Porta di S. Pancrazio, 1

In the period between circa 1150 and circa 1550, a number of Christians in western Europe made pilgrimage to places where various sorts of material objects–paintings, statues, relics and Eucharistic wafers–allegedly erupted into life by bleeding, weeping, flowering and walking about. Bynum describes not only the supposed miracles themselves but also the problems they presented for both church authorities and the ordinary faithful. She looks beyond these rather bizarre claims to investigate the implicit contemporary assumptions about the nature of matter itself and God’s relationship to his creation. Caroline Walker Bynum is Professor of Western Medieval History in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Studies and Lester K. Little Scholar in Residence at the American Academy in Rome.

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