Dissimilar Similitudes: Devotional Objects in Late Medieval Europe

by Caroline Walker Bynum

Book Overview

From an acclaimed historian, a mesmerizing account of how medieval European Christians envisioned the paradoxical nature of holy objects

Between the twelfth and the sixteenth centuries, European Christians used in worship a plethora of objects, not only prayer books, statues, and paintings but also pieces of natural materials, such as stones and earth, considered to carry holiness, dolls representing Jesus and Mary, and even bits...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1942130376
• ISBN13: 9781942130376
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Zone Books
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"