Medieval monstrosity and the female body / Sarah Alison Miller.

  • Miller, Sarah Alison.
Date:
2010
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Publication/Creation

New York ; London : Routledge, 2010.

Physical description

213 pages ; 24 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-204) and index.

Contents

Introduction: the monstrous borders of the female body -- Ovidian poetry -- Virgins, mothers, and monsters: Ovidian and pseudo-Ovidian bodies -- Gynecology -- Gynecological secrets: blood, seed, and monstrous births in De secretis mulierum -- Mystical theology -- Monstrous love: the permeable body of Christ in Julian of Norwich's showings -- Conclusion: the monstrous borders of the self.

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    History of Medicine
    CBW.AA2-3
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ISBN

  • 9780415873598
  • 0415873592