TY  - BOOK
AU  - Akbari,Suzanne Conklin
AU  - Ross,Jill
TI  - The Ends of the Body: Identity and Community in Medieval Culture 
SN  - 9781442644700
AV  - CB353 .E53 2013
U1  - 940.1 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Civilization, Medieval
KW  - Sources
KW  - Community life
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Human body in literature
KW  - Human body
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Symbolic aspects
KW  - Human figure in art
KW  - Identity (Psychology)
KW  - Individuality
KW  - Literature, Medieval
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442661387
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781442661387/original
ER  -