The Ends of the Body: Identity and Community in Medieval Culture
Suzanne Conklin Akbari is a professor in the Department of English and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto.
Jill Ross is a professor in the Centre for Comparative Literature and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto.
- Hardcover: 344 pages
- Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division (Jan 29 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1442644702
- ISBN-13: 978-1442644700
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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