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The Ends of the Body - Identity and Community in Medieval Culture (Hardcover)
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The Ends of the Body - Identity and Community in Medieval Culture (Hardcover)
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Drawing on Arabic, English, French, Irish, Latin and Spanish
sources, the essays share a focus on the body's productive capacity
- whether expressed through the flesh's materiality, or through its
role in performing meaning. The collection is divided into four
clusters. 'Foundations' traces the use of physical remnants of the
body in the form of relics or memorial monuments that replicate the
form of the body as foundational in communal structures;
'Performing the Body' focuses on the ways in which the individual
body functions as the medium through which the social body is
maintained; 'Bodily Rhetoric' explores the poetic linkage of body
and meaning; and 'Material Bodies' engages with the processes of
corporeal being, ranging from the energetic flow of humoural
liquids to the decay of the flesh. Together, the essays provide new
perspectives on the centrality of the medieval body and underscore
the vitality of this rich field of study.
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