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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.; 24 cm.

Summary

"In this book, Alexandra Cuffel analyzes medieval Jewish, Christian, and Muslim uses of gendered bodily imagery and metaphors of impurity in their visual and verbal polemic against one another. Drawing from a rich array of sources - including medical texts, bestiaries, midrash, biblical commentaries, kabbalistic literature, Hebrew liturgical poetry, and theological tracts from late antiquity to the mid-fourteenth century - Cuffel examines attitudes toward the corporeal body and its relationship to divinity."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• To 1500
• Geschichte 600-1500
• Women > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500 > Comparative studies
• Human body > 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 > History and criticism
• Religions > Relations

Genre/Form

• Apologetic writings
• Comparative studies
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History
• Écrits apologétiques.

Bibliography (note)

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

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

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

LCCN

^^2007003387

OCLC

• 81941676
• SCSB-10995043

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library