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From beasts to souls : gender and embodiment in Medieval Europe / edited by E. Jane Burns and Peggy McCracken.
- Title
- From beasts to souls : gender and embodiment in Medieval Europe / edited by E. Jane Burns and Peggy McCracken.
- Publication
- Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2013.
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| Text | Request in advance | PN682.A57 F76 2013 | Off-site |
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- Description
- vii, 269 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- This volume asks how medieval cultural representations of nonhuman or partially human creatures, whether literary, visual, religious, or theological, give us new ways to think about gender and embodiment on a broad theoretical spectrum. Contributors explore that question in a range of medieval contexts extending from learned debates to everyday objects of popular culture. Their essays draw on depictions of differently bodied creatures in the Middle Ages to dislodge and reconfigure long-standing views of the body as always human and the human body as merely male or female. Book jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction : gendered bodies in unexpected places / E. Jane Burns and Peggy McCracken -- Intimate connections. The sex life of stone / Jeffrey J. Cohen ; Nursing animals and cross-species intimacy / Peggy McCracken ; The lady and the dragon in Chrétien's Chevalier au lion / Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner -- Embodied souls. Rubber soul : theology, hagiography, and the spirit world of the high middle ages / Dyan Elliott ; Kissing the worm : sex and gender in the afterlife and the poetic posthuman late Middle English " A disputacion betwyx the body and wormes" / Elizageth Robertson -- Institutional effects. Hybridity, ethics, and gender in two Old French werewolf tales / Noah D. Guynn ; A snake-tailed woman : hybridity and dynasty in the Roman de Mélusine / E. Jane Burnes ; Moving beyond sexuality in mecieval sexual badges / Ann Marie Rasmussen.
- ISBN
- 9780268022327 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0268022321 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2013000463
- OCLC
- 821025216
- SCSB-12377238
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library