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A complex delight : the secularization of the breast, 1350-1750 / Margaret R. Miles.
LIBRA BT741.3 .M55 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miles, Margaret R. (Margaret Ruth), 1937-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Breast--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Breast.
- Human body--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Human body.
- Breast--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 177 pages, 12 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- The secularization of the breast
- The religious breast
- The virgin's one bare breast
- Mary Magdalen's penitent breast
- The secular breast
- The anatomical breast
- The pornographic breast
- Afterword: A complex delight.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-170) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520253483
- 0520253485
- OCLC:
- 154697757
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