A cultural history of the human body in the medieval age /
Covers years of the human body as a physical, social, spiritual and cultural object.
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford [England] :
Berg,
2010.
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| Edition: | English ed. |
| Series: | Cultural history of the human body ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Monica H. Green
- 1. Birth and Death / Katharine Park
- 2. Health, Disease, and the Medieval Body / Ann G. Carmichael
- 3. The Sexual Body / Ruth Mazo Karras and Jacqueline Murray
- 4. The Body Inferred: Knowing the Body through the Dissection of Texts / Fernando Salmón
- 5. Bodies and the Supernatural: Humans, Demons, and Angels / Anke Bernau
- 6. Beautiful Bodies / Montserrat Cabré
- 7. Bodily Essences: Bodies as Categories of Difference / Monica H. Green
- 8. The Diversity of Human Kind / Monica H. Green
- 9. Cultural Representations of the Body / Samantha Riches and Bettina Bildhauer
- 10. Self and Society / Sylvia Huot.