Caroline Walker Bynum, FBA (born May 10, 1941, in Atlanta, Georgia)[1][2] is a Medieval scholar from the United States.
[3] Bynum attended Radcliffe College before completing a bachelor's degree with high honors in history at the University of Michigan in 1962,[4] and master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard University in 1969.
[8] In 2015, she was the Robert Janson-La Palme Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University.
[9] Bynum's work has focused on the way medieval people, especially women, understood the nature of the human body and its physicality in the context of larger theological questions and spiritual pursuits.
[10] Her focus on female piety has brought increased attention to the role of women in medieval Europe.