The ends of the body : identity and community in medieval culture / edited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Jill Ross.
"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. 'Foundat...
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| Published: | Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2013], ©2013. |
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Table of Contents:
- Books, Bodies, and Bones: Hilduin of St Denis and the Relics of St Dionysius
- 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
- The Good Death of Richard Whittington: Corpse and Corporation
- An Epic Incarnation of Salvation: The Function of the Body in the Eupolemius
- Losing Face: Heroic Discourse and Inscription in Flesh in Scela Mucce Meic Datho
- The Dazzling Sword of Language: Masculinity and Persuasion in Classical and Medieval Rhetoric
- Amputating the Traitor: Healing the Social Body in Public Executions for Treason in Late Medieval England
- "A defect of the Mind or Body": Impotence and Sexuality in Medieval Theology and Canon Law
- Bodily Performances and Body Talk in Medieval Islamic Preaching
- The Leprous Body in Twelfth and Thirteenth century Rouen: Perceptions and Responses
- The Feminine Flesh in the Disputacione betwyx the Body and Worms
- Death as Metamorphosis in the Devotional and Political Allegory of Christine de Pizan.