Title: The book and the body
Description: One of the most exciting developments in recent literary studies bases interpretation on a new understanding of bodily aspects of text.

The method employed here views the body as a text to be read. Though the approaches of these essays are widely varied, three concerns figure and refigure themselves throughout the book: the gendered body and the copied book as locus of pain, pleasure, and desire. They will be of immense interest to medievalists and other scholars of language, philosophy, history, art history, and gender studies.
Subjects: Learning and scholarship, Intertextuality, Books and reading in literature, Intellectual life, Medieval Manuscripts, English literature, Textual Criticism, Books and reading, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), History, Body, Human, in literature, Civilization, Medieval, in literature, Human body in literature, English literature, history and criticism, middle english, 1100-1500, Great britain, intellectual life, Books and reading, history, Manuscripts
Places: England
Time periods: Medieval, 500-1500, Middle English, 1100-1500, 1066-1485