Caroline Walker Bynum
Caroline Walker Bynum is Professor of European Medieval History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Her research addresses medieval conceptions of teaching, medieval spirituality, and conceptions of the body in medieval thought. Her most recent book is Wonderful Blood, a study of blood piety in fifteenth-century northern Germany in its larger European context, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2007. She visited the Institute in September of 2008 to talk about her recent work.
The interview can also be downloaded as a video podcast (306.2 MB) or as an audio file (.mp3 - 54.5 MB).
The interview explores the roots of Bynum’s interest in history and in religion and spirituality, tracing the evolution of her projects, as one interest led on to the next.
Carolyn Walker Bynum’s vita is available through the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. A print interview with Bynum by the National Endowment for the Humanities is also available.