March/April 1999
In This Issue March/April 1999
From the Medieval to the Modern
1999 Jefferson Lecturer Caroline Walker Bynum talks about the legacy of the Middle Ages to the present day.
Volume 20, Issue 2
Caroline Walker Bynum, 1999 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities.
Andrew French ©1999
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Features
A Personal Reminiscence
Reflections on the approach of an "improper medievalist" to feasting, the body, and death.
By Fred PaxtonChivalry Revisited
Romance, poetry, and protest literature are rescued from obscurity.
By Rachel GalvinAmid Rubble and Myth
Excavations beneath Florence's cathedral reveal a church for a saint that never was.
By Franklin TokerWomen of Power
An eleventh-century nun with attitude becomes the subject of a Maryland film.
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