Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to The Body in Literature
- The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature
- The Body in Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Book part
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Medieval Somatics
- 3 Disability
- 4 Staging Early Modern Embodiment
- 5 Eating, Obesity and Literature
- 6 Language and the Body
- 7 The Maternal Body
- 8 Literary Sexualities
- 9 The Body, Pain and Violence
- 10 The Ageing Body
- 11 Representing Dead and Dying Bodies
- 12 The Racialized Body
- 13 Literature, Technology and the Senses
- 14 Literature and Neurology
- 15 Psychoanalytic Bodies
- 16 Literature and Affect
- 17 Posthuman Bodies
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to…
- References
2 - Medieval Somatics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2015
Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to The Body in Literature
- The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature
- The Body in Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Book part
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Medieval Somatics
- 3 Disability
- 4 Staging Early Modern Embodiment
- 5 Eating, Obesity and Literature
- 6 Language and the Body
- 7 The Maternal Body
- 8 Literary Sexualities
- 9 The Body, Pain and Violence
- 10 The Ageing Body
- 11 Representing Dead and Dying Bodies
- 12 The Racialized Body
- 13 Literature, Technology and the Senses
- 14 Literature and Neurology
- 15 Psychoanalytic Bodies
- 16 Literature and Affect
- 17 Posthuman Bodies
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to…
- References
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature , pp. 10 - 23Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
References
Further Reading
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Boitani, Piero and Torti, Anna, eds. The Body and the Soul in Medieval Literature. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1999.Google Scholar
Burns, E. Jane. Bodytalk: When Women Speak in Old French Literature. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.Google Scholar
Burns, E. Jane and McCracken, Peggy, eds. From Beasts to Souls: Gender and Embodiment in Medieval Europe. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013.Google Scholar
Bynum, Caroline. Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion. New York: Zone Books, 1991.Google Scholar
Cadden, Joan. The Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, Science, and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.Google Scholar
Campbell, Emma and Mills, Robert. Troubled Vision: Gender, Sexuality and Sight in Medieval Text and Image. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Elliott, Dyan. Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality and Demonology in the Middle Ages. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kalof, Linda, ed. A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Medieval Age (500–1500). London, New Delhi, New York: Bloomsbury, 2012.Google Scholar
Lomperis, Linda and Stanbury, Sarah, eds. Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.Google Scholar
McCracken, Peggy. The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero: Blood, Gender and Medieval Literature. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.Google Scholar
Rubin, Miri and Kay, Sarah, eds. Framing Medieval Bodies. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996.Google Scholar