The Ends of the Body : Identity and Community in Medieval Culture.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: Limits and Teleology: The Many Ends of the Body -- Part One: Foundations -- 1 Books, Bodies, and Bones: Hilduin of St-Denis and the Relics of St Dionysius -- 2 Death Is Not the End: The Encounter of the Three Living and the Three Dead in the Berlin Hours of Mary of Burgundy and Maximilian I -- 3 The Good Death of Richard Whittington: Corpse and Corporation -- Part Two: Bodily Rhetoric -- 4 An Epic Incarnation of Salvation: The Function of the Body in the Eupolemius -- 5 Losing Face: Heroic Discourse and Inscription in Flesh in Scéla Mucce Meic Dathó -- 6 The Dazzling Sword of Language: Masculinity and Persuasion in Classical and Medieval Rhetoric -- Part Three: Performing the Body -- 7 Amputating the Traitor: Healing the Social Body in Public Executions for Treason in Late Medieval England -- 8 'A Defect of the Mind or Body': Impotence and Sexuality in Medieval Theology and Canon Law -- 9 Bodily Performances and Body Talk in Medieval Islamic Preaching -- Part Four: Material Body -- 10 The Leprous Body in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Rouen: Perceptions and Responses -- 11 The Feminine Flesh in the Disputacione betwyx the Body and Wormes -- 12 Death as Metamorphosis in the Devotional and Political Allegory of Christine de Pizan -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.

The essays provide new perspectives on the centrality of the medieval body and underscore the vitality of this rich field of study.

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