TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bain,Frederika Elizabeth
TI  - Dismemberment in the Medieval and Early Modern English Imaginary: The Performance of Difference 
T2  - Late Tudor and Stuart Drama : Gender, Performance, and Material Culture
SN  - 9781501517860
U1  - 822.409354 23/eng/20230216
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Kalamazoo, MI
PB  - Medieval Institute Publications
KW  - Dismemberment in literature
KW  - Drama, Medieval
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - English drama
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Hinrichtung
KW  - Körper
KW  - Performance
KW  - Strafe
KW  - Verkörperung
KW  - Zerstückelung
KW  - HISTORY / Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Body
KW  - Dismemberment
KW  - Embodiement
KW  - Execution
KW  - Punition
N1  - Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; Introduction: Attending to Bodies --; Chapter 1: The Symbolic Body and the Performance of Dismemberment --; Chapter 2: Gendered Dismemberments --; Chapter 3: Animals of Dismemberment --; Chapter 4: The Anguish of the Dismemberer: Executioners and Others --; Chapter 5: Coda: After Dismemberment --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - The medieval and early modern English imaginary encompasses a broad range of negative and positive dismemberments, from the castration anxieties of Turk plays to the elite practices of distributive burial. This study argues that representations and instances of bodily fragmentation illustrated and performed acts of exclusion and inclusion, detaching not only limbs from bodies but individuals from identity groups. Within this context it examines questions of legitimate and illegitimate violence, showing that such distinctions largely rested upon particular acts’ assumed symbolic meanings. Specific chapters address ways dismemberments manifested gender, human versus animal nature, religious and ethnic identity, and social rank. The book concludes by examining the afterlives of body parts, including relics and specimens exhibited for entertainment and education, contextualized by discussion of the resurrection body and its promise of bodily reintegration. Grounded in dramatic works, the study also incorporates a variety of genres from midwifery manuals to broadside ballads
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501513237
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501513237
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501513237/original
ER  -