by Alexandra Cuffel (Author)
Analyzes medieval Jewish, Christian, and Muslim uses of gendered bodily imagery and metaphors of impurity in their visual and verbal polemic against one another. This book examines attitudes toward the corporeal body and its relationship to divinity.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 01 May 2006
ISBN 10: 0268023670
ISBN 13: 9780268023676