Christian Materiality: Miracles in the Later Middle Ages

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In the period between 1150 and 1550 a number of Christians in western Europe made pilgrimages to places where material objects--among them paintings, statues, relics, and Eucharistic wafers--allegedly erupted into life by such activities as bleeding, weeping, and walking about. In this lecture, Professor Bynum describes the miracles, discusses the problems they presented for both church authorities and the ordinary faithful, and probes the basic assumptions about matter that lay behind them. Stanford University: http://www.stanford.edu/ Stanford Humanities Center: http://shc.stanford.edu/ Stanford University Channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/stanford

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