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OverviewDrawing 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Suzanne Conklin Akbari , Jill RossPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.70cm Weight: 0.640kg ISBN: 9781442644700ISBN 10: 1442644702 Pages: 344 Publication Date: 29 January 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationSuzanne 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |