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

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"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ross, Jill, 1961- (Editor ), Akbari, Suzanne Conklin (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2013.
Temas:
To 1500
Human body > Social aspects > Europe > History > To 1500.
Human body > Symbolic aspects > Europe > History > To 1500.
Identity (Psychology) > Europe > History > To 1500.
Individuality > Europe > History > To 1500.
Community life > Europe > History > To 1500.
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
Human body in literature.
Human figure in art.
Civilization, Medieval > Sources.
Human beings in art.
Corps humain > Aspect social > Europe > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1500.
Corps humain > Aspect symbolique > Europe > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1500.
Identité (Psychologie) > Europe > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1500.
Individualité > Europe > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1500.
Communauté > Europe > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1500.
Littérature médiévale > Histoire et critique.
Corps humain dans la littérature.
Corps humain dans l'art.
Civilisation médiévale > Sources.
Corps humain dans l'art > Technique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
Civilization, Medieval
Community life
Human body in literature
Human body > Social aspects
Human body > Symbolic aspects
Human figure in art
Identity (Psychology)
Individuality
Literature, Medieval
Körper
Körper.
Kultur.
Människokroppen > sociala aspekter > historia.
Identitet (psykologi) > historia.
Människokroppen i litteraturen.
Människokroppen i konsten.
Europe
Europa
Europa.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Sources
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 Scéla Mucce Meic Dathó / 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 Pízan / Suzanne Conklin Akbari.

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