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The ends of the body identity and community in medieval culture /

"Drawing on Arabic, English, French, Irish, Latin and Spanish sources, the essays share a focus on the body's productive capacity - whether expressed through the flesh's materiality, or through its role in performing meaning. The collection is divided into four clusters. 'Foundat...

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Други автори: Ross, Jill, 1961-, Akbari, Suzanne Conklin.
Формат: Електронен
Език: English
Публикувано: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ℗♭2013.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Ends of the body.
Съдържание:
  • Introduction: Limits and Teleology: The Many Ends of the Body /
  • Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Jill Ross
  • 1.
  • Books, Bodies, and Bones: Hilduin of St Denis and the Relics of St Dionysius /
  • Ann Taylor
  • 2.
  • Death Is Not the End: The Encounter of the Three Living and the Three Dead in the Berlin Hours of Mary of Burgundy and Maximilian I /
  • Christian Kralik
  • 3.
  • The Good Death of Richard Whittington: Corpse and Corporation /
  • Amy Appleford
  • 4.
  • An Epic Incarnation of Salvation: The Function of the Body in the Eupolemius /
  • Sybia Parsons
  • 5.
  • Losing Face: Heroic Discourse and Inscription in Flesh in Scela Mucce Meic Datho /
  • Sarah Sheehan
  • 6.
  • The Dazzling Sword of Language: Masculinity and Persuasion in Classical and Medieval Rhetoric /
  • Jill Ross
  • 7.
  • Amputating the Traitor: Healing the Social Body in Public Executions for Treason in Late Medieval England /
  • Danielle M. Westerhof
  • 8.
  • "A defect of the Mind or Body": Impotence and Sexuality in Medieval Theology and Canon Law /
  • Catherine Rider
  • 9.
  • Bodily Performances and Body Talk in Medieval Islamic Preaching /
  • Linda G. Jones
  • 10.
  • The Leprous Body in Twelfth- and Thirteenth century Rouen: Perceptions and Responses /
  • Elma Brenner
  • 11.
  • The Feminine Flesh in the Disputacione betwyx the Body and Worms /
  • Wendy A. Matlock
  • 12.
  • Death as Metamorphosis in the Devotional and Political Allegory of Christine de Pizan /
  • Suzanne Conklin Akbari.