October
31, 2003
Prominent
Medievalist to Deliver Lax Lecture on November 6
|
Photo:
Mike Minehan
Caroline
Walker Bynum
|
Aaroline Walker Bynum, a professor of European
medieval history at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton,
New Jersey, will give this year's Lax Memorial Lecture on
Thursday, November 6, at 4:15 pm in the New York Room in Mary
E. Woolley Hall. Bynum's lecture is entitled "The Presence
of Objects: Medieval Anti-Judaism in Modern Germany."
In the later Middle Ages in Germany, according
to Bynum, there were a number of sites where pilgrimages and pogroms
developed around objects supposedly abused by Jews. "In some
of these places the objects survive today," Bynum said, "and
raise questions about how contemporary Germans and non-Germans
should treat such shameful objects from the past." Bynum
will talk both about the medieval context for such objects and
about modern attempts to memorialize and expiate the events.
Bynum is one of the most prominent medievalists
working today, according to Mount Holyoke history professor Carole
Straw. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and has
served as president of the American Historical Society and the
Medieval Academy. "Bynum has a subtle, extremely interesting
mind," Straw said. "She has the ability to see things
in new ways."
he co
un
he
counter is
1,656
|
