How Long to Read Fragmentation and Redemption

How Long Does it Take to Read Fragmentation and Redemption?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 31 minutes to read Fragmentation and Redemption by Caroline Walker Bynum

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

These seven essays by noted historian Caroline Walker Bynum exemplify her argument that historians must write in a "comic" mode, aware of history's artifice, risks, and incompletion. Exploring a diverse array of medieval texts, the essays show how women were able to appropriate dominant social symbols in ways that revised and undercut them, allowing their own creative and religious voices to emerge. Taken together, they provide a model of how to account for gender in studying medieval texts and offer a new interpretation of the role of asceticism and mysticism in Christianity. In the first three essays, Bynum focuses on the methodological problems inherent in the writing of history. She shows that a consideration of medieval texts written by women and the rituals attractive to them undermines the approaches of three 20th-century intellectual figures--Victor Turner, Max Weber, and Leo Steinberg--and illustrates how other disciplines can enrich historical research. These methodological considerations are then used in the next three essays to examine gender proper. While describing the "experiential" literary voices of medieval women, Bynum underlines the corporality of women's piety and focuses on both the cultural construction and the intractable physicality of the body itself. She also examines how the acts and attitudes of men affected the cultural construction of categories such as "female," "heretic," and "saint" and shows that the study of gender is the study of how roles and possibilities are conceptualized by both women and men. In the final essay, Bynum elucidates how medieval discussions of bodily resurrection and the obsession with material details enrich modem debates over questions of self-identity and survival.

How long is Fragmentation and Redemption?

Fragmentation and Redemption by Caroline Walker Bynum is 444 pages long, and a total of 112,776 words.

This makes it 150% the length of the average book. It also has 138% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Fragmentation and Redemption Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 16 minutes to read Fragmentation and Redemption aloud.

What Reading Level is Fragmentation and Redemption?

Fragmentation and Redemption is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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