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Naked before God : uncovering the body in Anglo-Saxon England / edited by Benjamin C. Withers and Jonathan Wilcox.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Medieval European studies ; 3.
- Medieval European studies ; 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nudity--History--To 1500.
- Nudity.
- Human body--England--History--To 1500.
- Human body.
- Civilization, Anglo-Saxon.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (330 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Uncovering the body in Anglo-Saxon England
- Place of Publication:
- Morgantown, W. Va. : West Virginia University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- At different times and in different places, the human form has been regarded in different ways.The Ancient Greeks thought it was the most admirable subject for art, whereas early Christians often viewed it as lascivious in our post-lapsarian state.
- Contents:
- The Key to the Body: Unlocking Riddles 42-46Riddle 42 (cock and hen); Riddle 43 (soul and body); Riddle 44 (key); Riddle 45 (dough); Riddle 46 (Lot and his daughters); Conclusions; The Body as Text in Early Anglo-Saxon Law; The Sacrificial Synecdoche of Hands, Heads, and Arms in Anglo-Saxon Heroic Story; Nudity on the Margins: The Bayeux Tapestry and its Relationship to Marginal Architectural Sculpture; The Donestre and the Person of Both Sexes; Exiles from the Kingdom: The Naked and the Damned in Anglo-Saxon Art; Body and Judgment In Anglo-Saxon Art; The Body in Law and Society
- The Body PunishedBreasts and Babies: The Maternal Body of Eve in the Junius 11 Genesis; The manuscript and its criticial history; Masculine/feminine opposition; Breasts as markers; Maternal subjectivity and illustration; Penitential Nakedness and the Junius 11 Genesis; Naked in Old English: The Embarrassed and the Shamed; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781935978374
- 1935978373
- OCLC:
- 923514532
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb08907 hdl
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