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Caroline Bynum is a child of the Sixties: A conversation
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Caroline Bynum is a child of the Sixties: A conversation

Kathy Lavezzo and Caroline Walker Bynum
Postmedieval a journal of medieval cultural studies
06/01/2026
DOI: 10.1057/s41280-026-00421-5
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Abstract

The renowned historian and medievalist Caroline Walker Bynum has given many interviews, but none, until now, to a fellow medievalist. In what follows, Bynum discusses with literary critic Kathy Lavezzo her formation as an intellectual and feminist during the 1960s at Harvard; her crucial relationship with her mother, philosopher Merle Grubbs Walker; the central components and legacy of her scholarly corpus; her writing process, mortality, and childhood love of Tolkien; and much more.
Social Sciences Arts & Humanities Arts & Humanities - Other Topics Cultural Studies Medieval & Renaissance Studies

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