Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture

K. Walter

earliest edition we have, 2013 Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Skin is a multifarious image in medieval culture: the material basis for forming a sense of self and relation to the world, as well as a powerful literary and visual image. Treating key medieval English texts and traditions, from romance and exemplum to technical treatises and encyclopedias, the essays in this collection show the subject of skin to be a peculiarly resistant and revealing mode of reading texts, highli...

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Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture edition · 2013 · Palgrave Macmillan · 9781349341771
Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture edition · 2013 · Palgrave Macmillan · 9781137084644
Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture hardcover · 2013 · Brand: Palgrave Macmillan · 225 pages · 9780230338708

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