03134nam 2200649Ia 450 991045887590332120200520144314.01-136-92350-00-203-84491-2(CKB)2670000000034012(EBL)547366(OCoLC)658058508(SSID)ssj0000422965(PQKBManifestationID)11281841(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000422965(PQKBWorkID)10432670(PQKB)11736162(MiAaPQ)EBC547366(Au-PeEL)EBL547366(CaPaEBR)ebr10413133(CaONFJC)MIL761342(EXLCZ)99267000000003401220091214d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMedieval monstrosity and the female body[electronic resource] /by Sarah Alison MillerNew York Routledge20101 online resource (226 p.)Routledge studies in medieval religion and culture ;v. 8Description based upon print version of record.1-138-81744-9 0-415-87359-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexThe 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,Routledge studies in medieval religion and culture ;8.Literature, MedievalHistory and criticismMonsters in literatureHuman body in literatureWomen in literatureElectronic books.Literature, MedievalHistory and criticism.Monsters in literature.Human body in literature.Women in literature.809/.02Miller Sarah Alison959422MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458875903321Medieval monstrosity and the female body2173936UNINA