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In "The Book of Margery Kempe", the protagonist shifts between identities and geographies as a nomadic subject, dispersed across compassionate responses to violence that unusually include a recognition of animal suffering. The "Life" of Christina the Astonishing also seizes on the nonhuman aspects of extreme affective experience as her bodily transformations participate in a process of becoming animal. Both texts reflect a medieval fascination with the devotional body as a zone of closure and opening where transhuman and interspecies associations can be safely explored.
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Openness in Medieval Europe, Berlin : ICI Berlin Press, 2022, (2022), Seite 170-189
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year:2022
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pages:170-189
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extent:21
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English
URN:
urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-687085
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