Fleshly things and spiritual matters : studies on the medieval body in honour of Margaret Bridges / edited by Nicole Nyffenegger and Katrin Rupp.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011.
Description
xii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

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    Summary note
    This text offers fresh insights into the plethora of medieval bodies and the multiple perspectives that can be assumed in their discussion. The ten essays collected encompass diverse approaches to the body such as the function of gestures, the gendered gaze, and the body's spatial and geographical positioning.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction : (Re-)writing the medieval body / Nicole Nyffenegger and Katrin Rupp
    • Body as stand-in for the self : from "Habeas Corpus" to some body and "nned a body cry" / Henry Ansgar Kelly
    • Mouth, ears, eyes : the body in, behind and between the lines of the text / Katharina Berger-Meister
    • Kit's sneeze : bodily communication, gender roles and the performativity of literature in the prologue to the Tale of Beryn / Guillemette Bolens
    • Grotesquely articulate bodies : medicine, hermeneutics and writing in the Canterbury Tales / Angelina Keller
    • Wounds, wit and words / Paul Beekman Taylor
    • Death becomes her : writing and reading the mortified and dead body in the Ancrene Wisse and related works / Lotta Sigurdsson
    • Eating bodies in the Old English Andreas / Fabienne Michelet
    • "A pregnant argument :" bodies and literacies in Dante's comedy, Chaucer's Troilus, Henryson's Testament / R. Allen Shoaf
    • (Dis)embodying men : the visual regimes of homosociality in the middle ages / Laurie Kinke
    • "Who sings the body medieval?" / Leslie Dunton-Downer.
    ISBN
    • 9781443827393 ((hardcover))
    • 1443827398 ((hardcover))
    LCCN
    2011505701
    OCLC
    707460487
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