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Christ's body : identity, culture and society in late medieval writings / / Sarah Beckwith



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Autore: Beckwith Sarah <1959-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Christ's body : identity, culture and society in late medieval writings / / Sarah Beckwith Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, c1996
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (212 p.)
Disciplina: 2480940902
809.93382
Soggetto topico: Christian art and symbolism - Medieval, 500-1500
Devotional literature - History and criticism
Human body - Religious aspects - Christianity
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 THE TRANSCENDENT AND THE HISTORICAL Inventing the discourse of mysticism; 2 CHRIST'S BODY AND THE IMAGING OF SOCIAL ORDER; 3 DYVERSE IMAGINACIOUNS OF CRYSTES LYF Subjectivity embodiment and crucifixion piety; 4 THE USES OF CORPUS CHRISTI AND THE BOOK OF MARGERY KEMPE; CONCLUSION; Notes; Works cited; Index
Sommario/riassunto: At the very heart of Christian doctrine and late medieval practice was the image of the crucified Christ. Sarah Beckwith examines the social meaning of this image across a range of key devotional English texts, using insights from anthropology and cultural studies. The image of the crucified Christ, she argues, acted as a place where the tensions between the sacred and the profane, the individual and the collective, were played out. The medieval obsession with the contours of Christ's body functioned to challenge and transform social and political relations. A fascinating and challengi
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ISBN: 1-85390-187-3
1-134-76156-2
1-134-76157-0
1-280-14993-0
9786610149933
0-203-99006-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910827272203321
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