Christ's Body

Identity, Culture and Society in Late Medieval Writings
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-17491-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 404 g

At the very heart of Christian doctrine and late medieval practice was the image of the crucified Christ. Sarah Beckwith examines the social meaning of this image across a range of key devotional English texts, using insights from anthropology and cultural studies.
The image of the crucified Christ, she argues, acted as a place where the tensions between the sacred and the profane, the individual and the collective, were played out. The medieval obsession with the contours of Christ's body functioned to challenge and transform social and political relations.
A fascinating and challenging book of interest not only to students of medieval literature, but also to cultural historians and women's studies specialists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beckwith, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1 THE TRANSCENDENT AND THE HISTORICAL: Inventing the discourse of mysticism 2 CHRIST’S BODY AND THE IMAGING OF SOCIAL ORDER 3 ‘DYVERSE IMAGINACIOUNS OF CRYSTES LYF’: Subjectivity, embodiment and crucifixion piety 4 THE USES OF CORPUS CHRISTI AND THE BOOK OF MARGERY KEMPE. CONCLUSION

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Beckwith is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.