Caroline Walker Bynum
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View article: Who Does She Think She Is?
Who Does She Think She Is? Open
A retired medievalist uses an incident from her early career to urge younger scholars to both self-confidence and realism about their own scholarship. Pointing out that suspicion of bright, high-achieving women has not disappeared, she arg…
View article: Growing Up in the Shadow of Confederate Monuments
Growing Up in the Shadow of Confederate Monuments Open
Drawing on her memories of growing up in a racially segregated South, the author argues not so much for the removal and erasure of Confederate memorials as for mutilating them or retaining a version of their presence glossed with an explan…
View article: Interrogating “Likeness”
Interrogating “Likeness” Open
The question of how historians and anthropologists should make comparisons involves the nature of “likeness.” Bynum argues that similitude has been under-theorized by anthropologists, semioticians, and historians. Using recent discussions …