THE SPECTACLE OF THE BODY IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND
First edition
LUMEN – Copyright © 2012 – CULTURAL DIMENSIONS Book Series
FORMAT: Paperback PAGES: 400 LANGUAGE: English
ISBN: 978-973-166-315-9
Second edition
LUMEN – Copyright © 2020 – CULTURAL DIMENSIONS Book Series
FORMAT: Paperback PAGES: 407 LANGUAGE: English
ISBN: 978-973-166-558-0
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Description:
Why a ‘spectacle’ of the body? Why not an ‘imaginary’ of the body or ‘images’ or perhaps ‘concepts’? Even to the lay reader, the two sets – ‘spectacle’ as a category unto its own versus the remainder, especially the last two concepts – likely evoke entrenched binaries such as dynamic vs. static views of the body. Yet not even at the most abstract conceptual level can the body be pictured as entirely static: medieval discursive practices testify to this much despite their rejection of body dynamics and change, regarded as damaging to spirituality. (The author)
Topics of interest:
- cultural, British, American, Jewish, Islamic studies
- myths, symbolic rituals and religious studies, philosophy of religion
- Medieval England
