Wonderful blood
theology and practice in late medieval northern Germany and beyond
by Caroline Walker Bynum
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"In Wonderful Blood, Caroline Walker Bynum studies the saving power attributed to Christ's blood at north German cult sites such as Wilsnack, the theological controversy such sites generated, and the hundreds of devotional paintings, poems, and prayers dedicated to Christ's wounds, scourging, and bloody crucifixion. She argues that Christ's blood as both object and symbol was central to late medieval art, literature, pious practice, and theology. As object of veneration, blood provided a focus of intense debate about the nature of matter, body, and God and an occasion for Jewish persecution; as motif, blood became a prominent subject of northern art and a central symbol in the visions of mystics and the prayers of ordinary people."--BOOK JACKET
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Blood, Christianity, Church history, Religious aspects, Religious aspects of Blood, Religious life and customs, Sacrifice, Symbolic aspects, Symbolic aspects of Blood, Reliquienkult, Kristna pilgrimer och pilgrimsfärder, Nord, Blutwunder, Sang, Blod, Piété populaire, Blut Christi, Teologi, Bedevaarten, Bloed, Kristendom, Heiliges Blut, Verehrung, Jésus-Christ, Historia, Wallfahrt, Religiösa aspekter, Kyrkohistoria, Pratique religieuse, Germany, church history, Theology, middle ages, 600-1500, Blood--religious aspects--christianity, Blood--symbolic aspects, Sacrifice--christianity, Br115.b57 b96 2007, 274.3/05Places
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Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond (The Middle Ages Series)
November 2007, University of Pennsylvania Press
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Wonderful blood: theology and practice in late medieval northern Germany and beyond
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-385) and index.
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