Corps mystique, corps sacré
Subtitle: textual transfigurations of the body from the Middle Ages to the seventeenth century
By: Françoise Jaouën and Benjamin Semple.
Contributors: Jaouën, Françoise.; Semple, Benjamin.
Series: Yale French studies -- no. 86
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New Haven, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Body, Human -- Religious aspects; Body, Human -- Mythology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The sacrality of one's own body in the Middle Ages / Alain Boureau; title: Mélusine's hybrid body and the poetics of metamorphosis / Kevin Brownlee; title: Corpus pascalis / Alain Cantillon; title: Bodies on stage and the production of meaning / Brigitte Cazelles; title: The King's one body in the Balet Comique de la Royne / Thomas M. Greene; title: The life of the dead body: death and the sacred in the cansons de geste / Sarah Kay; title: Travels in eucharistia: Formosa and Ireland from George Psalmanaazaar to Jonathan Swift / Frank Lestringant; title: Fables of the "Mystical Body" in seventeenth-century France / Hélène Merlin; title: Philosophical antibodies: grotesque fantasy in a French stoic fiction / Timothy Murray; title: The male psyche and the female sacred body in Marie de France and Christine de Pizan / Benjamin Semple; title: Making sweat: sex and the gender of national reproduction in the Marriage of Louis XIII / Abby Zanger.