From Beasts to Souls : Gender and Embodiment in Medieval Europe / edited by E. Jane Burns and Peggy McCracken.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burns, E. Jane, 1948- editor.

McCracken, Peggy, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame, [2013]

Summary:

Raises the issues of species and gender in tandem, asking readers to consider more fully what happens to gender in medieval representations of nonhuman embodiment.

Contents:

Introduction : gendered bodies in unexpected places / E. Jane Burns and Peggy McCracken

Intimate connections. The sex life of stone / Jeffrey J. Cohen ; Nursing animals and cross-species intimacy / Peggy McCracken ; The lady and the dragon in Chrâetien's Chevalier au lion / Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner

Embodied souls. Rubber soul : theology, hagiography, and the spirit world of the high middle ages / Dyan Elliott ; Kissing the worm : sex and gender in the afterlife and the poetic posthuman late Middle English " A disputacion betwyx the body and wormes" / Elizabeth Robertson

Institutional effects. Hybridity, ethics, and gender in two Old French werewolf tales / Noah D. Guynn ; A snake-tailed woman : hybridity and dynasty in the Roman de Mâelusine / E. Jane Burnes ; Moving beyond sexuality in medieval sexual badges / Ann Marie Rasmussen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Burns, E. Jane From Beasts to Souls

ISBN:

9780268209803

Publisher Number:

heb40368 hdl