Caroline Walker Bynum Awarded 2011 Haskins Medal

The Medieval Academy of America has presented the 2011 Haskins Medal to Caroline Walker Bynum, Professor in the School of Historical Studies for her book, Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007). The book, which the Academy called “a disturbing, intriguing, and masterly study of Christ’s blood,” was cited for “the originality, density, clarity, and complexity of Bynum’s argument, which has broad implications for the study of late-medieval theology, religiosity, Christian-Jewish relations, and art.”