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Pages: 308
Authors: Sarah Kay
Categories: Body, Human
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In this book, available at last in paperback, Kauppi develops a structural constructivist theory of the European Union and critically analyses, through French a
Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages
Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: Jack Hartnell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-12 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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With wit, wisdom, and a sharp scalpel, Jack Hartnell dissects the medieval body and offers a remedy to our preconceptions. Just like us, medieval men and women
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Language: en
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Authors: Jack Hartnell
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Dripping with blood and gold, fetishized and tortured, gateway to earthly delights and point of contact with the divine, forcibly divided and powerful even beyo
Writing Religious Women
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: Christiania Whitehead
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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This collection of commissioned essays explores women's vernacular theology through a wide range of medieval prose and verse texts, from saints' lives to vision
Medieval Theology and the Natural Body
Language: en
Pages: 266
Authors: Peter Biller
Categories: History
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An introductory essay by Peter Biller on medieval and contemporary concerns with the body is followed by Alcuin Blamire's examination of the paradoxes inherent