Lynda L Coon

Gebundenes Buch

Dark Age Bodies

Gender and Monastic Practice in the Early Medieval West

Beschreibung

"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.

Autor

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.

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