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The Body in Late Medieval and Early Modern Culture (Paperback)
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The Body in Late Medieval and Early Modern Culture (Paperback)
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Taking as its chronological starting-point the female body of late
medieval devotional literature, the volume moves on to a
consideration of the representation of gendered bodies in later
literature. It then proceeds to examine sixteenth-century
occupational orderings of the (male) body in education, the civil
service and the army, and involves explorations into a variety of
rituals for the purification, ordering and disciplining of the
flesh. It includes enquiries into the miraculous royal body, demon
bodies, the 'virtual' body of satire, and ends the late seventeenth
century with dramatic representations of the diseased body, and the
grotesque bodies of travellers' tales as signifiers of racial
difference. It pushes forward post-modern notions of the body as a
site for competing discourses. It provides new dimensions to
fantasies, rituals and regulations in narratives ('fictions') of
the body as identifications of forms of knowledge unique to the
early modern period. Each of the essays sheds new light on how
these late medieval and early modern narratives function to produce
specialized and discrete languages of the body that cannot be
understood simply in terms, say, of religion, philosophy or
physiology, but produce their own discrete forms of knowledge. Thus
the essays materially contribute to an understanding of the
relationship between the body and spatial knowledge by giving new
bearings on epistemologies built upon pre-modern perceptions about
bodily spaces and boundaries. They address these issues by
analysing forms of knowledge constructed through regulations of the
body, fantasies about extensions to the body and creations of
bodily, psychic, intellectual and spiritual space. The essays pose
important questions about how these epistemologies offer different
investments of knowledge into structures of power. What constitutes
these knowledges? What are the politics of corporeal spaces? In
what forms of knowledge about spatial and bodily perceptions and p
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