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020 $a9781442644700 (acid-free paper)
020 $a1442644702 (acid-free paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn808924305
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050 00 $aCB353$b.E53 2013
055 0 $aCB353$bE53 2012
082 04 $a940.1$223
245 04 $aThe ends of the body :$bidentity and community in medieval culture /$cedited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Jill Ross.
260 $aToronto ;$aBuffalo :$bUniversity of Toronto Press,$cc2013.
300 $avi, 327 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"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. 'Foundations' traces the use of physical remnants of the body in the form of relics or memorial monuments that replicate the form of the body as foundational in communal structures; 'Performing the Body' focuses on the ways in which the individual body functions as the medium through which the social body is maintained; 'Bodily Rhetoric' explores the poetic linkage of body and meaning; and 'Material Bodies' engages with the processes of corporeal being, ranging from the energetic flow of humoural liquids to the decay of the flesh. Together, the essays provide new perspectives on the centrality of the medieval body and underscore the vitality of this rich field of study."--Dust jacket.
505 0 $aBooks, Bodies, and Bones: Hilduin of St Denis and the Relics of St Dionysius -- 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 -- The Good Death of Richard Whittington: Corpse and Corporation -- An Epic Incarnation of Salvation: The Function of the Body in the Eupolemius -- Losing Face: Heroic Discourse and Inscription in Flesh in Scela Mucce Meic Datho -- The Dazzling Sword of Language: Masculinity and Persuasion in Classical and Medieval Rhetoric -- Amputating the Traitor: Healing the Social Body in Public Executions for Treason in Late Medieval England -- "A defect of the Mind or Body": Impotence and Sexuality in Medieval Theology and Canon Law -- Bodily Performances and Body Talk in Medieval Islamic Preaching -- The Leprous Body in Twelfth and Thirteenth century Rouen: Perceptions and Responses -- The Feminine Flesh in the Disputacione betwyx the Body and Worms -- Death as Metamorphosis in the Devotional and Political Allegory of Christine de Pizan.
650 0 $aHuman body$xSocial aspects$zEurope$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aHuman body$xSymbolic aspects$zEurope$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aIdentity (Psychology)$zEurope$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aIndividuality$zEurope$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aCommunity life$zEurope$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aLiterature, Medieval$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aHuman body in literature.
650 0 $aHuman figure in art.
650 0 $aCivilization, Medieval$vSources.
700 1 $aRoss, Jill,$d1961-
700 1 $aAkbari, Suzanne Conklin.