UID:
almafu_9958353164602883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781442661387
Content:
The essays provide new perspectives on the centrality of the medieval body and underscore the vitality of this rich field of study.
Note:
Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Illustrations --
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Preface --
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Introduction: Limits and Teleology. The Many Ends of the Body --
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Part One: Foundations --
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1. Books, Bodies, and Bones: Hilduin of St-Denis and the Relics of St Dionysius --
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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 --
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3. The Good Death of Richard Whittington: Corpse and Corporation --
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Part Two: Bodily Rhetoric --
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4. An Epic Incarnation of Salvation: The Function of the Body in the Eupolemius --
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5. Losing Face: Heroic Discourse and Inscription in Flesh in Scéla Mucce Meic Dathó --
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6. The Dazzling Sword of Language: Masculinity and Persuasion in Classical and Medieval Rhetoric --
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Part Three: Performing the Body --
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7. Amputating the Traitor: Healing the Social Body in Public Executions for Treason in Late Medieval England --
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8. ‘A Defect of the Mind or Body’: Impotence and Sexuality in Medieval Theology and Canon Law --
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9. Bodily Performances and Body Talk in Medieval Islamic Preaching --
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Part Four: Material Body --
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10. The Leprous Body in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Rouen: Perceptions and Responses --
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11. The Feminine Flesh in the Disputacione betwyx the Body and Wormes --
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12. Death as Metamorphosis in the Devotional and Political Allegory of Christine de Pizan --
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Contributors --
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Index
Language:
English
Keywords:
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Sources.
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History.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.3138/9781442661387
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442661387
