“And why not—whatever despair we may feel concerning resurrection and reassemblage—find comic relief in the human determination to assert wholeness in the face of inevitable decay and fragmentation?” ChristianityRedemptionCatholicismResurrectionPostmodernismFragmentationComedy AbsurdMedieval HistoryMedievalismNew Historicism Book:Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion Source: Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion