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UNINA9910458875903321 |
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Autore |
Miller Sarah Alison |
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Titolo |
Medieval monstrosity and the female body [[electronic resource] /] / by Sarah Alison Miller |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York, : Routledge, 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-92350-0 |
0-203-84491-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (226 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge studies in medieval religion and culture ; ; v. 8 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Literature, Medieval - History and criticism |
Monsters in literature |
Human body in literature |
Women in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: The Monstrous Borders of the Female Body; Part I Ovidian Poetry; 1 Virgins, Mothers, and Monsters: Ovidian and Pseudo-Ovidian Bodies; Part II Gynecology; 2 Gynecological Secrets: Blood, Seed, and Monstrous Births in De Secretis Mulierum; Part III Mystical Theology; 3 Monstrous Love: The Permeable Body of Christ in Julian of Norwich's Showings; Conclusion: The Monstrous Borders of the Self; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The medieval monster is a slippery construct, and its referents include a range of religious, racial, and corporeal aberrations. In this study, Miller argues that one incarnation of monstrosity in the Middle Ages-the female body-exists in special relation to medieval teratology insofar as it resists the customary marginalization that defined most other monstrous groups in the Middle Ages. Though medieval maps located the monstrous races on the distant margins of the civilized world, the monstrous female body took the form of mother, sister, wife, and daughter. It was, therefore, pervasive, |
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