Framing medieval bodies / edited by Sarah Kay & Miri Rubin.

Date:
[1994], ©1994
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Publication/Creation

Manchester [England] ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, [1994], ©1994.

Physical description

vii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographic references and index

Contents

Introduction / Sarah Kay and Miri Rubin -- Reading a saint's body : rapture and bodily movement in the 'vitae' of thirteenth-century beguines / Walter Simons -- Chaste bodies : frames and experiences / Jocelyn Wogan-Browne -- Medieval bodies in the material world : gender, stigma and the body / Roberta Gilchrist -- The image and the self : unwriting late medieval bodies / Michael Camille -- The person in the form : medieval challenges to bodily 'order' / Miri Rubin -- Bodies in the Jewish-Christian debate / Anna Sapir Abulafia -- The Pardoner's body and the disciplining of rhetoric / Rita Copeland -- The old body in medieval culture / Shulamith Shahar -- The body in some Middle High German 'Mären' : taming and maiming / Mark Chinca -- Women's body of knowledge : epistemology and misogyny in the 'Romance of the Rose' / Sarah Kay -- Dante and the body / Robin Kirkpatrick -- Making the world in York and the York cycle / Sarah Beckwith.

Notes

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Dillons

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    History of Medicine
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  • 0719036151