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The Ends of the Body: Identity and Community in Medieval Culture |
Suzanne Conklin Akbari; Jill Ross
University of Toronto Press
The Ends of the Body: Identity and Community in Medieval Culture
12. Death as Metamorphosis in the Devotional and Political Allegory of Christine de Pizan
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Suzanne Conklin Akbari

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1666965202531_8387880

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Pages

283

DOI

10.3138/9781442661387-015

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https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.3138/9781442661387-015/html

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Frontmatter
i
Contents
v
Illustrations
vii
Preface
ix
Introduction: Limits and Teleology. The Many Ends of the Body
3
1. Books, Bodies, and Bones: Hilduin of St-Denis and the Relics of St Dionysius
Anna Taylor
25
2. Death Is Not the End: The Encounter of the Three Living and the Three Dead in the Berlin Hours of Mary of Burgundy and Maximilian I
Christine Kralik
61
3. The Good Death of Richard Whittington: Corpse and Corporation
Amy Appleford
86
4. An Epic Incarnation of Salvation: The Function of the Body in the Eupolemius
Sylvia Parsons
113
5. Losing Face: Heroic Discourse and Inscription in Flesh in Scéla Mucce Meic Dathó
Sarah Sheehan
132
6. The Dazzling Sword of Language: Masculinity and Persuasion in Classical and Medieval Rhetoric
Jill Ross
153
7. Amputating the Traitor: Healing the Social Body in Public Executions for Treason in Late Medieval England
Danielle M. Westerhof
177
8. ‘A Defect of the Mind or Body’: Impotence and Sexuality in Medieval Theology and Canon Law
Catherine Rider
193
9. Bodily Performances and Body Talk in Medieval Islamic Preaching
Linda G. Jones
211
10. The Leprous Body in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Rouen: Perceptions and Responses
Elma Brenner
239
11. The Feminine Flesh in the Disputacione betwyx the Body and Wormes
Wendy A. Matlock
260
12. Death as Metamorphosis in the Devotional and Political Allegory of Christine de Pizan
Suzanne Conklin Akbari
283
Contributors
315
Index
319
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