TY - BOOK ID - 11296916 TI - The ends of the body AU - Ross, Jill AU - Akbari, Suzanne Conklin PY - 2013 SN - 9781442644700 1442644702 1442661380 9781442661387 1442661399 PB - Toronto Buffalo University of Toronto Press DB - UniCat KW - Human body KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Individuality KW - Community life KW - Literature, Medieval KW - Human body in literature. KW - Human figure in art. KW - Civilization, Medieval KW - Social aspects KW - History KW - Symbolic aspects KW - History and criticism. KW - Body, Human KW - Human body in art KW - Body, Human, in literature KW - Human figure in literature KW - Personal identity KW - Human beings KW - Body image KW - Human anatomy KW - Human physiology KW - Mind and body KW - Art KW - Composition (Art) KW - Figurative art KW - Anatomy, Artistic KW - Figure drawing KW - Figure painting KW - Associations, institutions, etc. KW - Human ecology KW - Psychology KW - Conformity KW - Likes and dislikes KW - Personality KW - Self KW - Ego (Psychology) KW - Human body in literature KW - Human figure in art KW - History and criticism KW - Europa. KW - Europa KW - Europe. KW - Council of Europe countries KW - Eastern Hemisphere KW - Eurasia KW - Abendland KW - Okzident KW - Europäer UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:11296916 AB - "Drawing on Arabic, English, French, Irish, Latin and Spanish sources, the essays share a focus on the body's productive capacity - whether expressed through the flesh's materiality, or through its role in performing meaning. The collection is divided into four clusters. 'Foundations' traces the use of physical remnants of the body in the form of relics or memorial monuments that replicate the form of the body as foundational in communal structures; 'Performing the Body' focuses on the ways in which the individual body functions as the medium through which the social body is maintained; 'Bodily Rhetoric' explores the poetic linkage of body and meaning; and 'Material Bodies' engages with the processes of corporeal being, ranging from the energetic flow of humoural liquids to the decay of the flesh. Together, the essays provide new perspectives on the centrality of the medieval body and underscore the vitality of this rich field of study."--Jacket. ER -