Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture

Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture
Author :
Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 361
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781137084644
ISBN-13 : 1137084642
Rating : 4/5 (642 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture by : K. Walter

Download or read book Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture written by K. Walter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skin is a multifarious image in medieval culture: the material basis for forming a sense of self and relation to the world, as well as a powerful literary and visual image. This book explores the presence of skin in medieval literature and culture from a range of literary, religious, aesthetic, historical, medical, and theoretical perspectives.


Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture Related Books

Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture
Language: en
Pages: 361
Authors: K. Walter
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-20 - Publisher: Springer

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Skin is a multifarious image in medieval culture: the material basis for forming a sense of self and relation to the world, as well as a powerful literary and v
Middle English Mouths
Language: en
Pages: 539
Authors: Katie L. Walter
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-06-21 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The mouth, responsible for both physical and spiritual functions - eating, drinking, breathing, praying and confessing - was of immediate importance to medieval
White before whiteness in the late Middle Ages
Language: en
Pages: 533
Authors: Wan-Chuan Kao
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-01-09 - Publisher: Manchester University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This groundbreaking book analyses premodern whiteness as operations of fragility, precarity and racialicity across bodily and nonsomatic figurations. It argues
Writing on Skin in the Age of Chaucer
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: Nicole Nyffenegger
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-09-10 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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
Flaying in the Pre-modern World
Language: en
Pages: 426
Authors: Larissa Tracy
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The practice and the representation of flaying in the middle ages and after are considered in this provocative collection.