Form and foreskin : medieval narratives of circumcision /
"Why did Saint Augustine ask God to "circumcise his lips?" Why does Sir Gawain cut off the Green Knight's head on the Feast of the Circumcision? Is Chaucer's Wife of Bath actually-as an early glossator figures her-a foreskin? And why did Ezra Pound claim that he had incubate...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
Published: |
New York :
Fordham University Press,
2021.
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Edition: | First edition. |
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Gospel According to the Foreskin
- 2. Saint Augustine and the Boy with the Long Foreskin
- 3. Nicking Sir Gawain
- 4. The Foreskin of Marriage
- Coda
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index