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Corpora and cultural transmission? Political uses of the body in Norman texts, 1050-1150
Patricia Skinner 
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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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 soci...
| Published in: | People, Texts and Artefacts: Cultural Transmission in the Medieval Norman Worlds, edited by David Bates, Eduardo d'Angelo and Elisabeth van Houts |
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| ISBN: | 9781909646537 |
| Published: |
London
Institute of Historical Research
2018
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| 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 |
| 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. |
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| Keywords: |
bodies, medieval, Normans, texts |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Start Page: |
213 |
| End Page: |
229 |