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Corpora and cultural transmission? Political uses of the body in Norman texts, 1050-1150

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People, Texts and Artefacts: Cultural Transmission in the Medieval Norman Worlds, edited by David Bates, Eduardo d'Angelo and Elisabeth van Houts, Pages: 213 - 229

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This chapter explores how Norman texts presented the masculine human body as a tool for commentary, focusing on three intersecting themes - representation of the royal or ruling body, bodily qualities read as signs of inner qualities, and the significance of the wounded or broken body in Norman soci...

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Published in: People, Texts and Artefacts: Cultural Transmission in the Medieval Norman Worlds, edited by David Bates, Eduardo d'Angelo and Elisabeth van Houts
ISBN: 9781909646537
Published: London Institute of Historical Research 2018
Online Access: https://www.sas.ac.uk/publication/people-texts-and-artefacts-cultural-transmission-medieval-norman-worlds
URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa40274
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Abstract: This chapter explores how Norman texts presented the masculine human body as a tool for commentary, focusing on three intersecting themes - representation of the royal or ruling body, bodily qualities read as signs of inner qualities, and the significance of the wounded or broken body in Norman society.
Keywords: bodies, medieval, Normans, texts
College: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Start Page: 213
End Page: 229