She is currently working on Christian devotional objects in cross-cultural perspective. Recent work includes a study of the cult of Christ's blood in northern Europe and research into the continuity of medieval pious practices in Reformation Germany. Her work on religious conceptions of the female body and on the medieval understanding of person as a psychosomatic unity helped create the new interest in the history of the body. She has written on twelfth-century monastic movements, on women's piety, on theological concepts of bodily resurrection, on gendered symbols in late medieval spiritual writing, and on death and apocalypse. Her research focuses on the religious and intellectual history of late medieval Europe. Professor Caroline Walker Bynum is the Professor emerita of Medieval European History at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton and University Professor emerita at Columbia University.
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