Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture [electronic resource] /
Walter, K.editor.
Skin is a multifarious image in medieval culture: the material basis for forming a sense of self and relation to the world, as well as a powerful literary and visual image. This book explores the presence of skin in medieval literature and culture from a range of literary, religious, aesthetic, historical, medical, and theoretical perspectives.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures                      ; Acknowledgments                      ; Abbreviations                    ; List of Contributors                           ; Introduction                   ; 1. Wondrous Skins and Tactile Affection: The Blemmye's Touch                                                                   ; 2. Noli me tangere: The Enigma of Touch in Middle English Religious Literature and Art for and about Women
3. Havelok's Bare Life and the Significance of Skin                                                          4. The Medieval Werewolf Model of Reading Skin                                                     ; 5. Cutaneous Time in the Late Medieval Literary Imagination                                                                  ; 6. The Form of the Formless: Medieval Taxonomies of Skin, Flesh, and the Human
7. Discerning Skin: Complexion, Surgery, and Language in Medieval Confession                                                                                   8. Desire and Defacement in The Testament of Cresseid                                                            ; 9. Touching Back: Responding to Reading Skin                                                   ; Works Cited                  ; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Skin is a multifarious image in medieval culture: the material basis for forming a sense of self and relation to the world, as well as a powerful literary and visual image. This book explores the presence of skin in medieval literature and culture from a range of literary, religious, aesthetic, historical, medical, and theoretical perspectives.
Literature, Medieval.
Arts.
Europe—History—476-1492.
Ethnology.
Literature—History and criticism.
World history.
Medieval Literature.
Arts.
History of Medieval Europe.
Cultural Anthropology.
Literary History.
World History, Global and Transnational History.