商品簡介
This text offers fresh insights into the plethora of medieval bodies and the multiple perspectives that can be assumed in their discussion. The ten essays collected encompass diverse approaches to the body such as the function of gestures, the gendered gaze, and the body's spatial and geographical positioning.
作者簡介
Nicole Nyffenegger is Senior Lecturer in Medieval English Studies at the University of Berne, Switzerland, where she works on her habilitation project on the textuality of human skin. She has published articles on English historiography and on the crusader historiographer William of Tyre. Katrin Rupp is a chargee de cours at the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, where she teaches medieval English language and literature. Her recent publications include two articles on Chaucer's Miller's Tale and contributions to the Dictionnaire des Femmes Creatrices.
