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Title:

CHRIST'S BODY
IDENTITY, CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN LATE MEDIEVAL WRITINGS

By:

Sarah Beckwith

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0415144264

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9780415144261

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

28 March, 1996

Pages:

216

Description:

Through her fascinating series of readings of texts such as The Book of Margery Kempe, Beckwith develops a materialist analysis of religious texts showing the vital cultural work they do.

Synopsis:

At the very heart of Christian doctrine and late medieval practice was the image of the crucified Christ. Sarah Beckwith examines the social meaning of this image across a range of key devotional English texts, using insights from anthropology and cultural studies. The image of the crucified Christ, she argues, acted as a place where the tensions between the sacred and the profane, the individual and the collective, were played out. The medieval obsession with the contours of Christ's body functioned to challenge and transform social and political relations. A fascinating and challenging book of interest not only to students of medieval literature, but also to cultural historians and women's studies specialists.

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