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Caroline
Walker Bynum.
Metamorphosis and Identity.
New York: Zone Books,
2001.
280pp.
Hardback, ISBN
1890951226.
Publisher's
recommended price £19.50
In Metamorphosis
and Identity, award-winning historian Caroline Walker Bynum
explores
the Western obsession with the nature of change and personal identity.
Focusing on the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, but concerned as well
with antiquity and the twentieth century, Bynum confronts the question
of why intellectuals, religious leaders, and ordinary people alike
exhibited
a precise and persistent desire to understand how the individual both
changes
and remains the same.
Examining
shifting
conceptions of change itself in the years around 1200, Bynum situates
the
intense medieval curiosity about radical or substantial change in the
context
of specific cultural and social developments. Two images of change -
hybridity
and metamorphosis - were prominent in imaginative literature, theology,
the visual arts, and natural philosophy: these sites of competing and
shifting
understandings each entailed a different anthropological and
psychological
assumptions. As Bynum demonstrates in the four essays of Metamorphosis
and Identity, the fascination with boundary crossing and alterity
reveals
an effort across different genres to delineate the regularity of nature
and to establish a strong sense of personal identity, perduring even
beyond
the grave.
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