Caroline Walker Bynum
Professor of Medieval European History, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey

Explaining Transformation: Material Miracles and Their Theorists in the Later Middle Ages
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 – 4:10 p.m.
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, 8th floor

In the period between 1150 and 1550 a number of Christians in western Europe made pilgrimage to places where material objects--among them paintings, statues, relics, pieces of wood, earth, stones, and Eucharistic wafers--allegedly erupted into life by such activities as bleeding, weeping, and walking about.  In this lecture, Prof. Bynum will describe the miracles themselves and probe the basic philosophical and scientific assumptions about nature and matter that lay behind them.

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