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A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Medieval Age (2010)

Kalof, Linda (Author)

Berg
Publication date: 2010
Language: English

ISBN: 9781845204952

Publication Date: 2010
Physical Details: viii + 295 pp.; ill.

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Human body Disease and diseases Sexuality Science and gender Race Medieval Asia Europe

The Christian, Jewish, and Muslim communities of medieval western Europe conceived of the human body in manifold ways. The body was not a fixed or unmalleable mass of flesh, but an entity that changed its character depending on its age, its interactions with its environment, and its diet. For example, a slave would have been marked by her language, her name, her religion, or even by a sign burned onto her skin, not by her color alone. Covering the period from 500-1500 and using sources that range across the full spectrum of medieval literary, scientific, medical, and artistic production, this volume explores the rich variety of medieval views of both the real and the metaphorical body. A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Medieval Age presents an overview of the period with essays on the centrality of the human body in birth and death, health and disease, sexuality, beauty and concepts of the ideal, bodies marked by gender, race, class and disease, cultural representations and popular beliefs, and self and society. - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/a-cultural-history-of-the-human-body-in-the-medieval-age-9781472554635/#sthash.8DRNZYUz.dpuf

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Review Metzler, Irina (2014) Review of "A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Medieval Age". Social History of Medicine (pp. 606-607). unapi

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