Naked Before God Uncovering the Body in Anglo Saxon England (Medieval European Studies 3)
Contributors: Benjamin C. Withers (Editor); Jonathan Wilcox (Editor)
Publisher: West Virginia University
Published: May 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780937058688
Subjects: Medieval; History: World; England; Literature - Classics / Criticism; To 1500; Nudity; History - Medieval; Civilization, Anglo-Saxon; Body, Human; History
First sentence: SITUATED at the intersection of contemporary discourses about identity, sexuality, gender, and subjectivity, the body (or em-bodiment) dominates the center of many conversations we are now having about the Middle Ages.