Institute presents lecture from well-known medievalist

January 19, 2007

Chapel Hill, N.C. — The Institute for the Arts and Humanities will host Princeton medievalist Caroline Walker Bynum on Feb. 19, at 8 p.m. in the Tate-Turner-Kuralt Auditorium on the UNC campus.

Bynum will give the 14th Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies on the topic, "Wonderful Blood: Art, Theology and Piety in Northern Europe in the Late Middle Ages."

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Bynum is professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Princeton University. Educated at the University of Michigan and Harvard University, Bynum is a MacArthur Fellow, a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her books include Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (1988); The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336 (1995); which won the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize of Phi Beta Kappa for the best book of the year; Metamorphosis and Identity (2001); and, most recently, Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond (2006).

A reception will follow in the Tate-Turner-Kuralt Lobby.

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