The Ends of the Body : : Identity and Community in Medieval Culture /

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

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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�...

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Akbari, Suzanne Conklin,
Ross, Jill,
TeilnehmendeR:
Ross, Jill,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2012
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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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

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