Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages

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• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Essays exploring medieval castration, as reflected in archaeology, law, historical record, and literary motifs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 365
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 163mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9781843843511
• ISBN-10: 184384351X
• Artikelnr.: 36696786

Autorenporträt

Larissa Tracy

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A History of Calamities: The Culture of Castration - Larissa
Tracy Raised Voices: The Archaeology of Castration - Kathryn Reusch The
Aesthetics of Castration: The Beauty of Roman Eunuchs - Shaun Tougher
Appropriation and Development of Castration as Symbol and Practice in Early
Christianity - Jack Collins 'Al defouleden is holie bodi': Castration, the
Sexualization of Torture, and Anxieties of Identity in the South English
Legendary - Larissa Tracy The Children He Never Had; The Husband She Never
Served: Castration and Genital Mutilation in Medieval Frisian Law - Rolf H.
Bremmer The Fulmannod Society: Social Valuing of the (Male) Legal Subject -
Jay Paul Gates 'Imbrued in their owne bloud': Castration in Early Welsh and
Irish Sources - Charlene Eska Castrating Monks: Vikings, the Slave Trade,
and the Value of Eunuchs - Mary A. Valante 'He took a stone away':
Castration and Cruelty in the Old Norse Sturlunga saga - Anthony Adams The
Castrating of the Shrew: The Performance of Masculinity and Masculine
Identity in La dame escolliee - Mary E Leech Eunuchs of the Grail - Jed
Chandler Insinuating Indeterminate Gender: A Castration Motif in Guillaume
de Lorris's Romans de la rose - Ellen Lorraine Friedrich Culture Loves a
Void: Eunuchry in Eunuchry in De Vetula and Jean Le Fèvre's La Vieille -
Robert L. A. Clark The Dismemberment of Will: Early Modern Fear of
Castration - Lena Wånggren and Karin Sellberg