Research Catalog

Title

Gendering disgust in medieval religious polemic / Alexandra Cuffel.

Author

Cuffel, Alexandra.

Publication

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2007.

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Description

xviii, 430 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Women > Religious aspects > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500 > Comparative studies
• Human body > Religious aspects > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500 > Comparative studies
• Purity, Ritual > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500 > Comparative studies
• Aversion > History > To 1500
• Apologetics > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500
• Islam > Apologetic works > History and criticism
• Judaism > Apologetic works > History and criticism
• Religions > Relations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-410) and index.

Contents

The stench of humanity : corporeality and the divine in late antique religious thought -- The seeds of rotten fruit : corporeal disgust and impurity as late antique and early medieval religious polemic -- Twelfth- and thirteenth-century contexts -- Filthy womb and foul believers : the incarnation and holy spaces in the Jewish-Christian-Muslim debate -- Impure, sickly bodies -- Signs of the beast : animal metaphors as maledictions of resistance and oppression.

Call Number

JFE 08-472

ISBN

• 9780268023676 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0268023670 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007003387

OCLC

81941676

Author

Cuffel, Alexandra.

Title

Gendering disgust in medieval religious polemic / Alexandra Cuffel.

Imprint

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2007.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-410) and index.

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Research Call Number

JFE 08-472