04368nam 2200745Ia 450 991046413930332120210427012501.01-283-89746-60-8122-0491-310.9783/9780812204919(CKB)3240000000064715(SSID)ssj0000606296(PQKBManifestationID)11354686(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606296(PQKBWorkID)10582028(PQKB)10742333(MiAaPQ)EBC3441644(OCoLC)794700589(MdBmJHUP)muse8273(DE-B1597)449346(OCoLC)1013960795(OCoLC)1037979744(OCoLC)1041993322(OCoLC)1046613477(OCoLC)1047013794(OCoLC)1049660198(OCoLC)1054866882(OCoLC)979756375(DE-B1597)9780812204919(Au-PeEL)EBL3441644(CaPaEBR)ebr10576084(CaONFJC)MIL420996(EXLCZ)99324000000006471520100520d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrDark age bodies[electronic resource] gender and monastic practice in the early medieval West /Lynda L. CoonPhiladelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc2011xi, 390 p. ill. (some col.)The Middle Ages seriesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8122-4269-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-373) and index.Front matter --Contents --Illustrations --Introduction. Dark Age Bodies --Chapter 1. ''Hrabanus Is My Name'' --Chapter 2. A Carolingian Aesthetic of Bricolage --Chapter 3. Gendering the Benedictine Rule --Chapter 4. Carolingian Practices of the Rule --Chapter 5. Inscribing the Rule onto Carolingian Sacred Space --Chapter 6. Gendering the Plan of Saint Gall --Chapter 7. Foursquare Power --Epilogue --Notes --Bibliography --Index --AcknowledgmentsIn Dark Age Bodies Lynda L. Coon reconstructs the gender ideology of monastic masculinity through an investigation of early medieval readings of the body. Focusing on the Carolingian era, Coon evaluates the ritual and liturgical performances of monastic bodies within the imaginative landscapes of same-sex ascetic communities in northern Europe. She demonstrates how the priestly body plays a significant role in shaping major aspects of Carolingian history, such as the revival of classicism, movements for clerical reform, and church-state relations. In the political realm, Carolingian churchmen consistently exploited monastic constructions of gender to assert the power of the monastery. Stressing the superior qualities of priestly virility, clerical elites forged a model of gender that sought to feminize lay male bodies through a variety of textual, ritual, and spatial means. Focusing on three central themes-the body, architecture, and ritual practice-the book draws from a variety of visual and textual materials, including poetry, grammar manuals, rhetorical treatises, biblical exegesis, monastic regulations, hagiographies, illuminated manuscripts, building plans, and cloister design. Interdisciplinary in scope, Dark Age Bodies brings together scholarship in architectural history and cultural anthropology with recent works in religion, classics, and gender to present a significant reconsideration of Carolingian culture.Middle Ages series.Human bodyReligious aspectsCatholic ChurchHistory of doctrinesMiddle Ages, 600-1500Men (Christian theology)History of doctrinesMiddle Ages, 600-1500Monastic and religious lifeHistoryMiddle Ages, 600-1500Electronic books.Human bodyReligious aspectsCatholic ChurchHistory of doctrinesMen (Christian theology)History of doctrinesMonastic and religious lifeHistory271Coon Lynda L257213MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464139303321Dark age bodies2468368UNINA