TY  - GEN
T1  - Chapter 9 Marking the Face, Curing the Soul? Reading the Disfigurement of Women in the Later Middle Ages
A1  - Kukita Yoshikawa, Naoë
LA  - eng
PB  - Boydell & Brewer
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/doab-20.500.12854-29543
AB  - Current preoccupations with the body have led to a growing interest in the intersections between religion, literature and the history of medicine, and, more specifically, how they converge within a given culture. This collection of essays explores the ways in which aspects of medieval culture were predicated upon an interaction between medical and religious discourses, particularly those inflected by contemporary gendered ideologies. The essays interrogate this convergence broadly in a number of different ways: textually, conceptually, historically, socially and culturally. They argue for an inextricable relationship between the physical and spiritual in accounts of health, illness and disability, and demonstrate how medical, religious and gender discourses were integrated in medieval culture. Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa is Professor of English in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Shizuoka University.

Contributors: Louise M. Bishop, Elma Brenner, Joy Hawkins, Roberta Magnani, Takami Matsuda, Liz Herbert McAvoy, Irina Metzler, Denis Renevey, Patricia Skinner, Juliette Vuille, Diane Watt, Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa.
KW  - literature
KW  - the body
KW  - medieval culture
KW  - disability
KW  - gendered ideologies
KW  - history of medicine
KW  - illness
KW  - religion
KW  - health
KW  - Hagiography
KW  - Jesus
KW  - Leprosy
KW  - London
KW  - Middle Ages
KW  - Mutilation
KW  - Self-harm
KW  - thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBB Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval
KW  - thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine
ER  -