Dark age bodies : gender and monastic practice in the early medieval West

Dark age bodies : gender and monastic practice in the early medieval West / Lynda L. Coon.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coon, Lynda L. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2011.
Series:Middle Ages series.
Subjects:
Benedict, > Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino. > Regula.
Rabanus Maurus, > Archbishop of Mainz, > 784?-856.
Rabanus Maurus, > Archbishop of Mainz, > 784?-856
Regula (Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino)
600 - 1500
Human body > Religious aspects > Catholic Church > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Men (Christian theology) > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Monastic and religious life > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Monastic and religious life > Middle Ages
History
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Description
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.
Item Description:OldControl:muse9780812204919.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 390 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-373) and index.
ISBN:9780812204919
0812204913
Language:In English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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