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‘Writing the Self: Regulating Sex, the Body and the Soul’
Liz Herbert McAvoy
The Blackwell Companion to British Literature (4 vols), Vol. 1: Medieval Literature, 700-1450
Swansea University Author: Liz Herbert McAvoy
Abstract
This chapter offers an overview of attitudes towards the body and sexuality in medieval anchoritic literature (that is to say, texts written by, for or about the anchorite).
| Published in: | The Blackwell Companion to British Literature (4 vols), Vol. 1: Medieval Literature, 700-1450 |
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| Published: |
Oxford
Blackwell
2013
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11864 |
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| Abstract: |
This chapter offers an overview of attitudes towards the body and sexuality in medieval anchoritic literature (that is to say, texts written by, for or about the anchorite). |
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| Item Description: |
This essay is based, in part, on the introduction to my monograph and could, therefore, be offered as a substitute piece, should the monograph be deemed unsuitable for publication. |
| Keywords: |
gender; sexuality; religious history; anchorite |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |