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Last Things: Death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages.

The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336 (1995) Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (1987)įragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion (1991) Gender and Religion: On the Complexity of Symbols. Jesus as Mother: Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middle Ages (1982) American Philosophical Society (elected, 1995)ĭocere Verbo et Exemplo: An Aspect of Twelfth-Century Spirituality (1979).American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected, 1993).American Society for the Study of Religion (elected, 1986).Society for Values in Higher Education (elected, 1977).Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.American Catholic Historical Association.Honorary degrees from 15 American and Foreign Universities.Grosses Verdienstkreuz mit Stern (Grand Merit Cross with Star) of the Federal Republic of Germany, awarded 2013.Orden Pour le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste of the Federal Republic of Germany, elected 2012.Gründler Prize, Award for Excellence from AAR, and Haskins Medal of the Medieval Academy of America, for Wonderful Blood, 2007, 2009, and 2011.Mark van Doren Award for Teaching, awarded by Columbia College, 2002.Centennial Medal of the Harvard Graduate Society, 2001.Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities, Chosen by NEH, 1999.Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, Columbia University, 1997.Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize of Phi Beta Kappa, and Jacques Barzun Prize of the American Philosophical Society, for The Resurrection of the Body, 1995, 1996.Member, American Philosophical Society, elected 1995.American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected 1993.Trilling Prize, and Award for Excellence from AAR, for Fragmentation and Redemption, 1992.

Philip Schaff prize for Holy Feast and Holy Fast, 1989.

MacArthur Fellow, July, 1986 - July, 1991.

Devotional Objects in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe.

She is currently exploring the paradox of Catholic survivals, including the survival of women’s monasticism, in Protestant Germany. Recently her research has focused on devotional practices, especially devotional objects, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In the 1980s and 1990s her work on gender and the history of the body established some of the paradigms still used in medieval studies. Professor Bynum works on the religious, cultural, social, and intellectual history of western Europe from late antiquity to the end of the sixteenth century.