Framing medieval bodies / edited by Sarah Kay & Miri Rubin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kay, Sarah, editor.

Rubin, Miri, 1956- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body--Social aspects--History.

Human body.

Civilization, Medieval.

Human body--Social aspects.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 1996.

Summary:

This book responds to the awareness amongst scholars of the importance of the body as a symbol in medieval culture. Its is innovative in bringing to the analysis of the body a truly interdisciplinary approach.

The body was a central symbol in medieval culture - discussed, treated and maltreated, represented and exposed in a variety of contexts and in a multiplicity of idioms. This book responds to the recent awareness amongst scholars of the importance of this subject and it is innovative in bringing to the analysis of the body a truly interdisciplinary approach, so overcoming the difficulties of mastering the topic from any single perspective or historical source. The contributors to this volume offer fresh perspectives on the ways in which bodies were framed and experienced in medieval culture. The chapters range across the cultural, historical, literary and archaeological dimensions to the subject, as well as focusing on diverse European regions. They also have many themes in common: recognition of historical specificity, an interest in modern theory and an awareness of the challenge which this theory poses to medieval studies. Framing medieval bodies is the first thorough study of the medieval body and its representations. The book will provide challenging new interpretations for researchers in and outside the medieval field.

Contents:

Introduction / Sarah Kay and Miri Rubin

Reading a saint's body : rapture and bodily movement in the vitae of thirteenth-century beguines / Walter Simons

Chaste bodies : frames and experiences / Jocelyn Wogan-Browne

Medieval bodies in the material world : gender, stigma and the body / Roberta Gilchrist

The image and the self : unwriting late medieval bodies / Michael Camille

The person in the form : medieval challenges to bodily 'order' / Miri Rubin

Bodies in the Jewish-Christian debate / Anna Abulafia. The Pardoner's body and the disciplining of rhetoric / Rita Copeland

The old body in medieval culture / Shulamith Shahar

The body in some Middle High German Mären : taming and maiming / Mark Chinca

Women's body of knowledge : epistemology and misogyny in the "Romance of the rose" / Sarah Kay

Dante and the body / Robin Kirkpatrick

Making the world in York and the York cycle / Sarah Beckwith.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0719050103

9780719050107

OCLC:

43368666