| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 315 pages) illustrations |
| Series |
Medieval European studies ; 3 |
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Medieval European studies ; 3.
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| Contents |
Forward: Uncovering the Body in Anglo-Saxon England / Benjamin C. Withers -- Introduction: Medieval Bodies Then and Now: Negotiating Problems of Ambivalence and Paradox / Suzanne Lewis -- 1. The Wanton Hand: Reading and Reaching Into Grammars and Bodies in Old English Riddle 12 / Sarah L. Higley -- 2. The Key to the Body: Unlocking Riddles 42-46 / Mercedes Salvador -- 3. The Body as Text in Early Anglo-Saxon Law / Mary P. Richards -- 4. The Sacrificial Synecdoche of Hands, Heads, and Arms in Anglo-Saxon Heroic Story / John M. Hill -- 5. Nudity on the Margins: The Bayeux Tapestry and Its Relationship to Marginal Architectural Sculpture / Karen Rose Mathews -- 6. The Donestre and the Person of Both Sexes / Susan M. Kim -- 7. Exiles from the Kingdom: The Naked and the Damned in Anglo-Saxon Art / Catherine E. Karkov -- 8. Breasts and Babies: The Maternal Body of Eve in the Junius 11 Genesis / Mary Dockray-Miller -- 9. Penitential Nakedness and the Junius 11 Genesis / Janet S. Ericksen -- 10. Naked in Old English: The Embarrassed and the Shamed / Jonathan Wilcox |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Art, Anglo-Saxon -- Themes, motives
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Art, Medieval -- Great Britain
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Nude in art.
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Nudity -- Religious aspects.
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Human beings in art.
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Human body in literature.
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Anglo-Saxon.
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Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature.
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Civilization, Anglo-Saxon -- In art
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Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500.
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nudes (representations)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
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Art, Anglo-Saxon
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Art, Medieval
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Civilization, Anglo-Saxon
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Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature
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Human beings in art
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Human body in literature
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Anglo-Saxon
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Nude in art
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Nudity -- Religious aspects
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Social history -- Medieval
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Art
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wilcox, Jonathan, 1960-
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Withers, Benjamin C.
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| ISBN |
9781935978374 |
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1935978373 |
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