Cultural History of the Human Body in the Medieval Age

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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The Christian, Jewish, and Muslim communities of medieval western Europe conceived of the human body in manifold ways. The body was not a fixed or unmalleable mass of flesh, but an entity that changed its character depending on its age, its interactions with its environment, and its diet. For example, a slave would have been marked by her language, her name, her religion, or even by a sign burned onto her skin, not by her color alone. Covering the period from 500 to 1500 and using sources that range across the full spectrum of medieval literary, scientific, medical, and artistic production, this volume explores the rich variety of medieval views of both the real and the metaphorical body. A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Medieval Age presents an overview of the period with essays on the centrality of the human body in birth and death, health and disease, sexuality, beauty and concepts of the ideal, bodies marked by gender, race, class and disease, cultural representations and popular beliefs, and self and society.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-01-16
Mått169 x 244 x undefined mm
Vikt490 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCultural Histories Series
Antal sidor312
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781472554635

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IllustrationsSeries PrefaceIntroductionMonica H. Green, Arizona State University, USA1 Birth and Death Katharine Park, Harvard University, USA2 Health, Disease, and the Medieval Body Ann G. Carmichael, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA3 The Sexual Body Ruth Mazo Karras, University of Minnesota, USA and Jacqueline Murray, University of Guelph, Canada4 The Body Inferred: Knowing the Body through the Dissection of Texts Fernando Salmón, University of Cantabria, Spain5 Bodies and the Supernatural: Humans, Demons, and Angels Anke Bernau, University of Manchester, UK6 Beautiful Bodies Montserrat Cabré, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain7 Bodily Essences: Bodies as Categories of Difference Monica H. Green, Arizona State University, USA8 The Diversity of Human Kind Monica H. Green, Arizona State University, USA9 Cultural Representations of the Body Samantha Riches, Lancaster University, UK and Bettina Bildhauer, University of St Andrews, UK10 Self and Society Sylvia Huot, University of Cambridge, UKNotes Bibliography Contributors Index