The Ends of the Body : : Identity and Community in Medieval Culture / / Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Jill Ross.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Akbari, Suzanne Conklin,; Ross, Jill,
• TeilnehmendeR: Ross, Jill,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Drawing on Arabic, English, French, Irish, Latin and Spanish sources, the essays share a focus on the body's productive capacity - whether expressed through the flesh's materiality, or through its role in performing meaning.The collection is divided into four clusters. 'Foundations' traces the use of physical remnants of the body in the form of relics or memorial monuments that replicate the form of the body as foundational in communal structures; 'Performing the Body' focuses on the ways in which the individual body functions as the medium through which the social body is maintained; 'Bodily Rhetoric' explores the poetic linkage of body and meaning; and 'Material Bodies' engages with the processes of corporeal being, ranging from the energetic flow of humoural liquids to the decay of the flesh.Together, the essays provide new perspectives on the centrality of the medieval body and underscore the vitality of this rich field of study.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: Limits and Teleology. The Many Ends of the Body -- Part One: Foundations -- 1. Books, Bodies, and Bones: Hilduin of St-Denis and the Relics of St Dionysius / Taylor, Anna -- 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 / Kralik, Christine -- 3. The Good Death of Richard Whittington: Corpse and Corporation / Appleford, Amy -- Part Two: Bodily Rhetoric -- 4. An Epic Incarnation of Salvation: The Function of the Body in the Eupolemius / Parsons, Sylvia -- 5. Losing Face: Heroic Discourse and Inscription in Flesh in Scéla Mucce Meic Dathó / Sheehan, Sarah -- 6. The Dazzling Sword of Language: Masculinity and Persuasion in Classical and Medieval Rhetoric / Ross, Jill -- Part Three: Performing the Body -- 7. Amputating the Traitor: Healing the Social Body in Public Executions for Treason in Late Medieval England / Westerhof, Danielle M. -- 8. 'A Defect of the Mind or Body': Impotence and Sexuality in Medieval Theology and Canon Law / Rider, Catherine -- 9. Bodily Performances and Body Talk in Medieval Islamic Preaching / Jones, Linda G. -- Part Four: Material Body -- 10. The Leprous Body in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Rouen: Perceptions and Responses / Brenner, Elma -- 11. The Feminine Flesh in the Disputacione betwyx the Body and Wormes / Matlock, Wendy A. -- 12. Death as Metamorphosis in the Devotional and Political Allegory of Christine de Pizan / Conklin Akbari, Suzanne -- Contributors -- Index