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Writing on Skin in the Age of Chaucer (Paperback)
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Writing on Skin in the Age of Chaucer (Paperback)
Series: Buchreihe Der Anglia / Anglia Book Series
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Owing to its relatedness to parchment as the primary writing matter
of the Middle Ages, human skin was not only a topic to write about
in medieval texts, it was also conceived of as an inscribable
surface, both in the material and in the figurative sense. This
volume explores the textuality of human skin as discussed by
Geoffrey Chaucer and other writers (medical, religious,
philosophical, and literary) of the fourteenth and fifteenth
century. It presents four main aspects of the complex relations
between text, parchment, and human skin as they have been discussed
in recent scholarship. These four aspects are, first, the (mostly
figurative) resonances between parchment-making and transformations
of human skin, second, parchment as a space of contact between
animal and human spheres, third, human skin and parchment as sites
where (gender) identities are negotiated, and fourth, the place of
medieval skin studies within cultural studies and its relationship
to the major concerns of cultural studies: the difficult
demarcation of skin from body, the instability of any inscription,
and the skin's precarious state as an entity of its own.
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