Caroline Walker Bynum

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1. Caroline Walker Bynum

   Author of Holy Feast and Holy Fast, Jesus as Mother, Metamorphosis and Identity

2. Peter Robert Lamont Brown

   Author of The Body and Society, The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity (The Haskell Lectures on History of Religions), Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity

3. Michel Feher

   Author of Zone 4: Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Part 2, Zone 3: Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Part 1, Zone 5: Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Part 3

4. Jaroslav Pelikan

   Author of The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Volume 3: The Growth of Medieval Theology (600-1300), The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Volume 4: Reformation of Church and Dogma (1300-1700), Christianity and Classical Culture: The Metamorphosis of Natural Theology in the Christian Encounter with Hellenism (Gif

5. Bernard McGinn

   Author of The Foundations of Mysticism (Presence of God: a History of Western Christian Mysticism Vol. 1) (v1), Apocalyptic Spirituality (Classics of Western Spirituality), The Growth of Mysticism: Gregory the Great Through the 12 Century (The Presence of God) (v. 2)

6. Jacques Le Goff

   Author of Intellectuals in the Middle Ages, The Medieval Imagination, Your Money or Your Life: Economy and Religion in the Middle Ages

7. Carlo Ginzburg

   Author of The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller, The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century, The Enigma of Piero: Piero Della Francesca

8. Patrick J. Geary

   Author of Furta Sacra, Living With the Dead in the Middle Ages, Phantoms of Remembrance: Memory and Oblivion at the End of the First Millenium

9. R. W. Southern

   Author of The Making of the Middle Ages, Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages (Hist of the Church)

10. Natalie Zemon Davis

    Author of Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives, Society and Culture in Early Modern France: Eight Essays by Natalie Zemon Davis

11. Margery Kempe

    Author of The Book of Margery Kempe

12. Georges Duby

    Author of The Knight, the Lady and the Priest: The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval France, The Chivalrous Society

13. Lorraine Daston

    Author of Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750, Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science

14. Miri Rubin

    Author of Corpus Christi: The Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture, Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary, Gentile Tales: The Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews (The Middle Age Series)

15. Giorgio Agamben

    Author of Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive, The Man Without Content (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics), The End of the Poem: Studies in Poetics (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

16. Eamon Duffy

    Author of The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580, Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes, Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor

17. Anthony Grafton

    Author of Defenders of the Text: The Traditions of Scholarship in an Age of Science, 1450-1800, What was History?: The Art of History in Early Modern Europe

18. Marina Warner

    Author of Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary

19. R. I. Moore

    Author of The Formation of a Persecuting Society: Power and Deviance in Western Europe

20. Umberto Eco

    Author of Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages