Laura Kalas

Margery Kempe's Spiritual Medicine

Suffering, Transformation and the Life-Course

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Book of Margery Kempe set in the context of medieval medical discourse.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9781843845546
• ISBN-10: 1843845547
• Artikelnr.: 58479906

Autorenporträt

LAURA KALAS is Senior Lecturer in Medieval English Literature at Swansea University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Bleeding the Tears of Melancholia 2. 'Þe mukke' of Marriage
and the Sexual Paradox 3. Lost Blood of the Middle Age: Surrogacy and
Fecundity 4. Margery Medica: The Healing Value of Pain Surrogacy 5. The
Passion of Death Surrogacy 6. Senescent Reproduction: Writing Anamnestic
Pain Afterword / Afterlife Select Bibliography Glossary of Medical Terms