Dark Age Bodies: Gender and Monastic Practice in the Early Medieval West (Middle Ages)

Dark Age Bodies: Gender and Monastic Practice in the Early Medieval West (Middle Ages)

by LyndaL.Coon (Author)

Synopsis

Dark Age Bodies reconstructs the gender ideology of monastic masculinity through an investigation of early medieval readings of the body and its parts. It brings together scholarship in architectural history and cultural anthropology to frame an important reconsideration of Carolingian culture.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 09 Nov 2010

ISBN 10: 0812242696
ISBN 13: 9780812242690