Chapter 9 Marking the Face, Curing the Soul? Reading the Disfigurement of Women in the Later Middle Ages

Chapter 9 Marking the Face, Curing the Soul? Reading the Disfigurement of Women in the Later Middle Ages

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Current preoccupations with the body have led to a growing interest in the intersections between religion, literature and the history of medicine, and, more specifically, how they converge within a given culture. This collection of essays explores the ways in which aspects of medieval culture were p...

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Main Author: Kukita Yoshikawa, Naoë (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Boydell & Brewer 2015
Subjects:
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
History of medicine
literature
the body
medieval culture
disability
gendered ideologies
history of medicine
illness
religion
health
Hagiography
Jesus
Leprosy
London
Middle Ages
Mutilation
Self-harm
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