在对男性宗教团体进行研究之后，拜纳姆将重点转移到了12至16世纪西欧的宗教妇女身上。 她通过将妇女的思想和生活故事置于历史背景中，并通过比较男性和女性的著作，发现了妇女的宗教反应的特点。 古代晚期和中上世纪的死亡和救赎思想构成了她的书《西方基督教国家的身体复活，200-1336》（1995）的重点。 她撰写了许多书籍，包括《Docere Verbo et Exemplo》（1979年）、《作为母亲的耶稣》（1982年）、《神圣的节日和神圣的禁食》。食物对中世纪妇女的宗教意义》（1987年）、《分裂与救赎》。关于性别和人体的论文》（1991年）和《蜕变与身份》（2001年）。
Caroline Walker Bynum
Medieval Historian | Class of 1986
Title
Medieval Historian
Location
Seattle, Washington
Age
45 at time of award
Area of Focus
Classics, Late Antiquity, and Medieval Studies
Published August 1, 1986
ABOUT CAROLINE'S WORK
Caroline Bynum studies the theology and religious practices of late-medieval Europe.
Following her study of male religious orders, Bynum shifted her focus to religious women of western Europe from the twelfth to sixteenth centuries. She uncovered the characteristics of women’s religious responses by placing their ideas and life stories in a historical context, and by comparing male and female writings. Ideas of death and redemption in late antiquity and the high-middle ages constitute the focus of her book, The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christendom, 200-1336 (1995). She has authored many books, including Docere Verbo et Exemplo (1979), Jesus as Mother (1982), Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (1987), Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body (1991), and Metamorphosis and Identity (2001).
BIOGRAPHY
Since 2003, Bynum has been the Professor of Western European Middle Ages at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. She previously held the Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Chair in History at Columbia University (1990-1998) and was the first woman at Columbia to hold the title of University Professor (1999-2003).
Bynum received a B.A. (1962) from the University of Michigan, and an M.A. (1963) and a Ph.D. (1969) from Harvard University.