Wonderful Blood

Autori

• Caroline Walker Bynum

Parametri

• Esoterismo e religione
• Medioevo
• Religione
• Saggistica
• Storia

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Bynum argues that Christ's blood as both object and symbol was central to late medieval art, literature, and religious life. As cult object, blood provided a focus of theological debate about the nature of matter, body, and God and an occasion for Jewish persecution; as motif, blood became a central symbol in popular devotion.

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Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2007

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