Writing on Skin in the Age of Chaucer / Nicole Nyffenegger, Katrin Rupp.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nyffenegger, Nicole, editor.

Rupp, Katrin, editor.

Series:

Buchreihe der Anglia ; Volume 60.

Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series ; 60

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Owing to its relatedness to parchment as the primary writing matter of the Middle Ages, human skin was not only a topic to write about in medieval texts, it was also conceived of as an inscribable surface, both in the material and in the figurative sense. This volume explores the textuality of human skin as discussed by Geoffrey Chaucer and other writers (medical, religious, philosophical, and literary) of the fourteenth and fifteenth century. It presents four main aspects of the complex relations between text, parchment, and human skin as they have been discussed in recent scholarship. These four aspects are, first, the (mostly figurative) resonances between parchment-making and transformations of human skin, second, parchment as a space of contact between animal and human spheres, third, human skin and parchment as sites where (gender) identities are negotiated, and fourth, the place of medieval skin studies within cultural studies and its relationship to the major concerns of cultural studies: the difficult demarcation of skin from body, the instability of any inscription, and the skin's precarious state as an entity of its own.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Writing on Skin in the Age of Chaucer / Nyffenegger, Nicole / Rupp, Katrin

Part I: Reading Diseased Skin

Doctrinal Dermatologies / Gilles, Sealy

The "Scabbe of Synne:" Reading Leprous Skin in Late Medieval Culture / Leahy, Michael

Legible Leprosy: Skin Disease in the Testament of Cresseid, Chaucer's Summoner, and Amis and Amiloun / Rhodes, Sharon E.

Part II: Textual Skins

Chaucer's Ethical Palimpsest: Dermal Reflexivity in the General Prologue / Cox, Catherine S.

The Cook's "Mormal:" Reading Disease, Doubt, and Deviance on the Body of Chaucer's Cook / Sweany, Erin E.

Blushing, Paling, Turning Green: Hue and Its Metapoetic Function in Troilus and Criseyde / Nyffenegger, Nicole

Part III: Writing Dermal Identities

Like a Second Skin: Appropriation and (Mis)interpretation of Identities in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and William of Palerne / Gutierrez-Neal, Pax

Queer Skin in the "Wife of Bath's Prologue" and Its Manuscript Glosses / Magnani, Roberta

Reconstructing the Pardoner: Transgender Skin Operations in Fragment VI / Bychowski, M.W.

Afterword: Skin Matters / Robertson, Elizabeth

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 16. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9783110575873

3110575876

9783110578133

3110578131

OCLC:

1054880199