Lynda L Coon

Dark Age Bodies

Gender and Monastic Practice in the Early Medieval West

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9780812242690
• ISBN-10: 0812242696
• Artikelnr.: 30540165

Autorenporträt

Lynda L. Coon is Associate Professor of History at the University of Arkansas. She is the author of Sacred Fictions: Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Introduction: Dark Age Bodies
Chapter 1. "Hrabanus Is My Name"
Chapter 2. A Carolingian Aesthetic of Bricolage
Chapter 3. Gendering the Benedictine Rule
Chapter 4. Carolingian Practices of the Rule
Chapter 5. Inscribing the Rule onto Carolingian Sacred Space
Chapter 6. Gendering the Plan of Saint Gall
Chapter 7. Foursquare Power
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments