Originally published: Oxford : Berg Publishers, 2010. Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-285) and index.
Contents:
(from table of contents) Introduction / Sylvia Huot. Self and society / Katharine Park -- Health, disease, and the medieval body / Ann G. Carmichael -- The sexual body / Ruth Mazo Karras and Jacqueline Murray -- The body inferred : knowing the body through the dissection of texts / Fernando Salmón -- Bodies and the supernatural : humans, demons, and angels / Anke Bernau -- Beautiful bodies / Montserrat Cabré -- Bodily essences : bodies as categories of difference / Monica H. Green -- The diversity of human kind / Monica H. Green -- Cultural representations of the body / Samantha Riches and Bettina Bildhauer -- Self and society / Sylvia Huot.
Summary:
"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."--Page 4 of printed paper wrapper.
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