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Record Number:
17845
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Bynum , Caroline Walker.
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Title:
“...And Woman His Humanity”: Female Imagery in the Religious Writing of the Later Middle Ages [The essay argues that late medieval writers used gendered imagery in different ways: while male writers saw gender as dichotomous, women writers often used the same imagery to represent a genderless humanity. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion.Caroline Walker Bynum. MIT Press, 1991. Pages 151 - 180.
Description:
Article Type:
Essay
Subject
(See Also)
:
Binary Opposition
Gender
Jesus Christ- Humanity of
Mystics
Woman, Image of
Women Authors
Women in Religion
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
General
Century:
12- 13- 14- 15
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Conference Info:
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Year of Publication:
1991.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
0942299639