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A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Medieval Age.

A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Medieval Age.

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電子版あり 大学・学術機関向け電子ブック(eBook)ISBN 9781350049734
著者・編者Kalof, Linda (ed.),
シリーズ (The Cultural Histories Series)
出版社 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK)
出版年月2014
ページ数312 pp.
言語ENG
ニュース番号<A02-30694>

解説

The Christian, Jewish, and Muslim communities of medieval western Europe conceived of the human body in manifold ways. The body was not a fixed or unmalleable mass of flesh, but an entity that changed its character depending on its age, its interactions with its environment, and its diet. For example, a slave would have been marked by her language, her name, her religion, or even by a sign burned onto her skin, not by her color alone.

Covering the period from 500 to 1500 and using sources that range across the full spectrum of medieval literary, scientific, medical, and artistic production, this volume explores the rich variety of medieval views of both the real and the metaphorical body.

A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Medieval Age
presents an overview of the period with essays on the centrality of the human body in birth and death, health and disease, sexuality, beauty and concepts of the ideal, bodies marked by gender, race, class and disease, cultural representations and popular beliefs, and self and society.