Bodies and disciplines : intersections of literature and history in fifteenth-century England

Bodies and disciplines : intersections of literature and history in fifteenth-century England / Barbara A. Hanawalt and David Wallace, editors.

Centered on practices of the body-human bodies, the "body politic"--Bodies and Disciplines considers a fascinating and largely uncanonical group of texts, as well as public dramas, rituals, and spectacles, from multidisciplinary perspectives. The result is a volume that incorporates insigh...

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Other Authors: Hanawalt, Barbara A., 1941-, Wallace, David, 1954-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
Series:Medieval cultures ; v. 9.
Subjects:
1066 - 1500
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism > Congresses.
Literature and history > England > History > Congresses.
Fifteenth century > Congresses.
HISTORY.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Civilization
English literature > Middle English
Fifteenth century
Historiography
Literature
Literature and history
Cultuur.
Great Britain > History > Lancaster and York, 1399-1485 > Historiography > Congresses.
England > Civilization > 1066-1485 > Congresses.
England > In literature > Congresses.
England
Great Britain
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Brewing Trouble: On Literature and History-and Alewives; 2. The Body, Whole and Vulnerable, in Fifteenth-Century England; 3. ""Representyd now in yower syght"": The Culture of Spectatorship in Late-Fifteenth-Century England; 4. Ritual, Theater, and Social Space in the York Corpus Christi Cycle; 5. Finding Language for Misconduct: Jurors in Fifteenth-Century Local Courts; 6. Two Models, Two Standards: Moral Teaching and Sexual Mores; 7. Blessing from Sun and Moon: Churching as Women's Theater.
  • 8. ""The Childe of Bristowe"" and the Making of Middle-Class Adolescence 9. Reciprocity and Exchange in the Late Medieval Household; 10. William Thorpe and His Lollard Community: Intellectual Labor and the Representation of Dissent; Afterword: What Happens at Intersections?; Contributors; Index.

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