The Body in Late Medieval and Early Modern Culture - Couverture rigide

Taunton, Nina

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0754601153 ISBN 13 : 9780754601159

Editeur : Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

Taking as its chronological starting-point the female body of late medieval devotional literature, the volume moves on to a consideration of the representation of gendered bodies in later literature. It then proceeds to examine sixteenth-century occupational orderings of the (male) body in education, the civil service and the army, and involves explorations into a variety of rituals for the purification, ordering and disciplining of the flesh. It includes enquiries into the miraculous royal body, demon bodies, the 'virtual' body of satire, and ends the late seventeenth century with dramatic representations of the diseased body, and the grotesque bodies of travellers' tales as signifiers of racial difference. It pushes forward post-modern notions of the body as a site for competing discourses. It provides new dimensions to fantasies, rituals and regulations in narratives ('fictions') of the body as identifications of forms of knowledge unique to the early modern period. Each of the essays sheds new light on how these late medieval and early modern narratives function to produce specialized and discrete languages of the body that cannot be understood simply in terms, say, of religion, philosophy or physiology, but produce their own discrete forms of knowledge. Thus the essays materially contribute to an understanding of the relationship between the body and spatial knowledge by giving new bearings on epistemologies built upon pre-modern perceptions about bodily spaces and boundaries. They address these issues by analysing forms of knowledge constructed through regulations of the body, fantasies about extensions to the body and creations of bodily, psychic, intellectual and spiritual space. The essays pose important questions about how these epistemologies offer different investments of knowledge into structures of power. What constitutes these knowledges? What are the politics of corporeal spaces? In what forms of knowledge about spatial and bodily perceptions and p

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À propos de l'auteur

Darryll Grantley, University of Kent, UK and Nina Taunton, Brunel University, UK Nina Taunton, Darryll Grantley, Claire Marshall, Doris Feldmann, Barry Taylor, Felicity Dunworth, Alan Stewart, Stephen Clucas, Gareth Roberts, Lawrence Normand, Margaret Healy, Cliff Forshaw, Susan Wiseman.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0754601153
• ISBN 13: 9780754601159
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Éditeur: Grantley Darryll
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