Screen LibraryDark age bodies : gender and monastic practice in the early medieval west /
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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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2011] ©2011 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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The middle ages series
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| Summary: |
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. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (416 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | 42 b/w, 8 color illus. |
| ISBN: | 9780812204919 |
| Index Number: | BX2470 |
| CLC: | B979 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction. Dark Age Bodies -- Chapter 1. Hrabanus Is My Name -- Chapter 2. A Carolingian Aesthetic of Bricolage -- Chapter 3. Gendering the Benedictine Rule -- Chapter 4. Carolingian Practices of the Rule -- Chapter 5. Inscribing the Rule onto Carolingian Sacred Space -- Chapter 6. Gendering the Plan of Saint Gall -- Chapter 7. Foursquare Power -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |