Christ's Body: Identity, Culture and Society in Late Medieval Writing
At
the very heart of Christian doctrine and late medieval practice was the
image of the crucified Christ. In this richly interdisciplinary study,
Sarah Beckwith examines the social meaning of this image across a range
of key devotional English texts, using insights from anthropology and
cultural studies. The image of the crucified Christ, she argues, acted
as a place where the tensions between the sacred and the profane the
individual and the collective, were played out. The last medieval
obsession with the contours of Christ's Body functioned to challenge and
transform social and political relations. Christ's Body is a
fascinating and challenging book of interest not only to students of
medieval literature, but also to cultural historians and women's studies
specialists.
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