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Book SynopsisThe essays in this text consider the way the human body is subjected to educational discipline, corporate celebration and to the production of gendered identity through the experiences of marriage and childbirth. It includes insights from history, literature, medieval studies and critical theory.
Table of ContentsBrewing trouble - on literature and history and alewives, Ralph Hanna III; the body, whole and vulnerable, in fifteenth-century England, Miri Rubin; "representyd now in yower syght" - the culture of spectatorship in late-fifteenth-century England, Seth Lerer; ritual, theater, and social space in the york corpus christi cycle, Sarah Beckwith; finding language for misconduct - jurors in fifteenth-century local courts, Marjorie K. McIntosh; two models, two standards - moral teaching and sexual mores, Ruth Mazo Karras; blessing from sun and moon - churching as women's theater, Gail McMurray Gibson; "the childe of bristowe" and the making of middle-class adolescence, Barbara A. Hanawalt; reciprocity and exchange in the late medieval household, Felicity Heal; William Thorpe and his lollard community - intellectual labour and the representation of dissent, Rita Copeland; afterword - what happens at intersections?, Paul Strohm.
