Castration and culture in the Middle Ages /

Castration and castrati have always been facets of western culture, from myth and legend to law and theology, from eunuchs guarding harems to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century castrati singers. Metaphoric castration pervades a number of medieval literary genres, particularly the Old French fab...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Tracy, Larissa, 1974- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, 2013.
Temas:
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
Castration in literature.
Castration.
Civilization, Medieval.
Littérature médiévale > Histoire et critique.
Castration dans la littérature.
Civilisation médiévale.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
Castration
Castration in literature
Civilization, Medieval
Literature, Medieval
Kastration
Mittelalter
Kultur
Kastration.
Castratie.
Eunuchen.
Literaire thema's.
Geschiedbronnen.
Europa.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: A history of calamities: the culture of castration / Larissa Tracy
  • Raised voices: the archaeology of castration / Kathryn Reusch
  • The aesthetics of castrations: the beauty of Roman eunuchs / Shaun Tougher
  • Appropriation and development of castration as symbol and practice in early Christianity / Jack Collins
  • 'Al defouleden is holie bodi': castration, the sexualization of torture, and anxieties of identity in the South English Legendary / Larissa Tracy
  • The children he never had; the husband she never served: castration and genital mutilation in medieval Frisian law / Rolf H. Bremmer Jr
  • The Fulmannod Society: social valuing of the (male) legal subject / Jay Paul Gates
  • 'Imbrued in their owne bloud': castration in early Welsh and Irish sources / Charlene M. Eska
  • Castrating monks: Vikings, the slave trade, and the value of eunuchs / Mary A. Valante
  • 'He took a stone away': castration and cruelty in the old Norse Stulunga saga / Anthony Adams
  • The castrating of the shrew: the peformance of masculinity and masculine identity in La dame escolliee / Mary E. Leech
  • Eunuchs of the Grail / Jed Chandler
  • Insinuating indeterminate gender: a castration motif in Guillaume de Lorris's Romans de la rose / Ellen Lorraine Friedrich
  • Culture loves a void: eunuchry in De Vetula and Jean Le Fèvre's La Vieille / Robert L.A. Clark
  • The dismemberment of will: early modern fear of castration / Karin Sellberg and Lena Wånggren.

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