The ends of the body : identity and community in medieval culture /
"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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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Limits and Teleology: The Many Ends of the Body / Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Jill Ross
- 1. Books, Bodies, and Bones: Hilduin of St Denis and the Relics of St Dionysius / Ann Taylor
- 2. 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 / Christian Kralik
- 3. The Good Death of Richard Whittington: Corpse and Corporation / Amy Appleford
- 4. An Epic Incarnation of Salvation: The Function of the Body in the Eupolemius / Sybia Parsons
- 5. Losing Face: Heroic Discourse and Inscription in Flesh in Scéla Mucce Meic Dathó / Sarah Sheehan
- 6. The Dazzling Sword of Language: Masculinity and Persuasion in Classical and Medieval Rhetoric / Jill Ross
- 7. Amputating the Traitor: Healing the Social Body in Public Executions for Treason in Late Medieval England / Danielle M. Westerhof
- 8. "A defect of the Mind or Body": Impotence and Sexuality in Medieval Theology and Canon Law / Catherine Rider
- 9. Bodily Performances and Body Talk in Medieval Islamic Preaching / Linda G. Jones
- 10. The Leprous Body in Twelfth- and Thirteenth century Rouen: Perceptions and Responses / Elma Brenner
- 11. The Feminine Flesh in the Disputacione betwyx the Body and Worms / Wendy A. Matlock
- 12. Death as Metamorphosis in the Devotional and Political Allegory of Christine de Pízan / Suzanne Conklin Akbari.