A complex delight
Subtitle: the secularization of the breast, 1350-1750
By: Margaret R. Miles.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520253483
Subjects: Breast -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Human body -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Breast -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The secularization of the breast; title: The religious breast; title: The virgin's one bare breast; title: Mary Magdalen's penitent breast; title: The secular breast; title: The anatomical breast; title: The pornographic breast; title: Afterword: A complex delight.