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1 online resource (vi, 327 pages) : illustrations |
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Introduction: Limits and Teleology: The Many Ends of the Body / Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Jill Ross -- 1. Books, Bodies, and Bones: Hilduin of St Denis and the Relics of St Dionysius / Ann Taylor -- 2. Death Is Not the End: The Encounter of the Three Living and the Three Dead in the Berlin Hours of Mary of Burgundy and Maximilian I / Christian Kralik -- 3. The Good Death of Richard Whittington: Corpse and Corporation / Amy Appleford -- 4. An Epic Incarnation of Salvation: The Function of the Body in the Eupolemius / Sybia Parsons -- 5. Losing Face: Heroic Discourse and Inscription in Flesh in Scéla Mucce Meic Dathó / Sarah Sheehan -- 6. The Dazzling Sword of Language: Masculinity and Persuasion in Classical and Medieval Rhetoric / Jill Ross -- 7. Amputating the Traitor: Healing the Social Body in Public Executions for Treason in Late Medieval England / Danielle M. Westerhof -- 8. "A defect of the Mind or Body": Impotence and Sexuality in Medieval Theology and Canon Law / Catherine Rider -- 9. Bodily Performances and Body Talk in Medieval Islamic Preaching / Linda G. Jones -- 10. The Leprous Body in Twelfth- and Thirteenth century Rouen: Perceptions and Responses / Elma Brenner -- 11. The Feminine Flesh in the Disputacione betwyx the Body and Worms / Wendy A. Matlock -- 12. Death as Metamorphosis in the Devotional and Political Allegory of Christine de Pízan / Suzanne Conklin Akbari. |
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1442661380 (electronic bk.) |
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9781442661387 (electronic bk.) |
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9781442644700 |
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1442644702 |
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10.3138/9781442661387 doi |
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