
Medieval Blood
Bettina Bildhauer(Author)
University of Wales Press
Will be published approx. on 1. March 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-7083-2197-3 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first interdisciplinary study of one of the crucial elements of medieval imaginations of the world: blood. It takes a theoretically informed approach to the subject and is thus the first to propose that blood shapes the body as a distinct identity. The author shows that by taking blood and bodies seriously, we gain significant new insights into medieval culture. The author's central thesis is that blood affirms the body as one of the major tenets of medieval thought and identity. 'The body' is not a given, enclosed, unified entity, always already different from the mind and from its surroundings. The concept of such an enclosed body is instead produced by various strategies, of which several use blood. This book will appeal to scholars and students who are interested in the history of the body across a wide range of disciplines: German studies, literature, medieval history, history of religion, history of medicine and gender studies.
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Dr Bettina Bildhauer is Lecturer in German at the University of St. Andrews. She co-edited The Monstrous Middle Ages and has published widely on medieval themes, both in English and German.More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Wales
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7083-2197-3 (9780708321973)
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Dr Bettina Bildhauer is Lecturer in German at the University of St Andrews, and has published widely on medieval themes.