Fallen bodies
Subtitle: pollution, sexuality, and demonology in the Middle Ages
By: Dyan Elliott.
Series: The Middle Ages series
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Sex -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.; Demonology -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Description: "Review :"Lyrical in parts, this is a deep and reflective reading of those clusters of contradictory images which attempted to make sense of the exultant and the vulnerable in medieval bodies. Dyan Elliott offers a potent combination of the rigor of textual analysis, the passion of feminism, and the insights of psychoanalysis, as she juxtaposes texts in sequences never before conceived. This will be a treat for all medievalists, a demanding and amply rewarding intellectual journey."-Miri Rubin, Queen Mary, University of London "This elegantly written book reveals and explores a set of profound if elusive connections that made the materialization of the witch in the early modern period, in Dyan Elliott's closing words, 'virtually irresistable.'... A dazzling recreation of pre-Enlightenment thinking about the overlapping configurations of pollution, this important book will be essential reading for premodern and early modern scholars of gender, sexuality, and the body."-Medium Aevum "In this provocative and, at times, disturbing book, Elliott explores issues of anti-Semitism, ritual purity, and clerical misogyny within the larger historical framework of the Gregorian Reform movement of the high and later Middle Ages."-Religious Studies Review "That rare conjunction of impeccable scholarship, brilliant synthesis, and innovative intellectual insight. It is a far-ranging work."-Mathew Kuefler, San Diego State University"--from amazon.ca.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-287) and index.