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200 10$aMedieval monstrosity and the female body$b[electronic resource] /$fby Sarah Alison Miller
210   $aNew York $cRoutledge$d2010
215   $a1 online resource (226 p.)
225 1 $aRoutledge studies in medieval religion and culture ;$vv. 8
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aBook 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
330   $aThe medieval monster is a slippery construct, and its referents include a range of religious, racial, and corporeal aberrations. In this study, Miller argues that one incarnation of monstrosity in the Middle Ages-the female body-exists in special relation to medieval teratology insofar as it resists the customary marginalization that defined most other monstrous groups in the Middle Ages. Though medieval maps located the monstrous races on the distant margins of the civilized world, the monstrous female body took the form of mother, sister, wife, and daughter. It was, therefore, pervasive,
410  0$aRoutledge studies in medieval religion and culture ;$v8.
606   $aLiterature, Medieval$xHistory and criticism
606   $aMonsters in literature
606   $aHuman body in literature
606   $aWomen in literature
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615  0$aLiterature, Medieval$xHistory and criticism.
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615  0$aHuman body in literature.
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