Wonderful Blood
Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond (The Middle Ages Series)
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Author
Publication
2007-11-01 - University of Pennsylvania Press
Language
English
Word Count
114,000 words, Guess
Page Count
456 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archivewonderfulbloodth0000bynu
- ISBN-139780812220193
- ISBN-100812220196
- LibraryThing7771016
- Library of Congress Control Number2006051487
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number74988499
- Better World Books9780812220193
- Open LibraryOL11345545M
Classifications
- LCCBR115.B57 B96 2007
Description
"In Wonderful Blood, Caroline Walker Bynum studies the saving power attributed to Christ's blood at north German cult sites such as Wilsnack, the theological controversy such sites generated, and the hundreds of devotional paintings, poems, and prayers dedicated to Christ's wounds, scourging, and bloody crucifixion. She argues that Christ's blood as both object and symbol was central to late medieval art, literature, pious practice, and theology. As object of veneration, blood provided a focus of intense debate about the nature of matter, body, and God and an occasion for Jewish persecution; as motif, blood became a prominent subject of northern art and a central symbol in the visions of mystics and the prayers of ordinary people."--BOOK JACKET
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