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Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture

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Author(s): Katie L. Walter (eds.)
Series: The New Middle Ages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2013

Language: English
Tags: Medieval Literature; Arts; History of Medieval Europe; Cultural Anthropology; Literary History; World History, Global and Transnational History

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Wondrous Skins and Tactile Affection: The Blemmye’s Touch....Pages 11-28
Noli me Tangere: The Enigma of Touch in Middle English Religious Literature and Art for and About Women....Pages 29-55
Havelok’s Bare Life and the Significance of Skin....Pages 57-80
The Medieval Werewolf Model of Reading Skin....Pages 81-97
Cutaneous Time in the Late Medieval Literary Imagination....Pages 99-118
The Form of the Formless: Medieval Taxonomies of Skin, Flesh, and the Human....Pages 119-139
Discerning Skin: Complexion, Surgery, and Language in Medieval Confession....Pages 141-160
Desire and Defacement In The Testament of Cresseid ....Pages 161-181
Touching Back: Responding to Reading Skin ....Pages 183-195
Back Matter....Pages 197-225