Castration and culture in the Middle Ages. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Larissa Tracy.
• Editors: Tracy, Larissa, 1974-
• Contents: Introduction: A history of calamities: the culture of castration / Larissa Tracy -- Raised voices: the archaeology of castration / Kathryn Reusch -- The aesthetics of castrations: the beauty of Roman eunuchs / Shaun Tougher -- Appropriation and development of castration as symbol and practice in early Christianity / Jack Collins -- 'Al defouleden is holie bodi': castration, the sexualization of torture, and anxieties of identity in the South English Legendary / Larissa Tracy -- The children he never had; the husband she never served: castration and genital mutilation in medieval Frisian law / Rolf H. Bremmer Jr -- The Fulmannod Society: social valuing of the (male) legal subject / Jay Paul Gates -- 'Imbrued in their owne bloud': castration in early Welsh and Irish sources / Charlene M. Eska -- Castrating monks: Vikings, the slave trade, and the value of eunuchs / Mary A. Valante -- 'He took a stone away': castration and cruelty in the old Norse Stulunga saga / Anthony Adams -- The castrating of the shrew: the peformance of masculinity and masculine identity in La dame escolliee / Mary E. Leech -- Eunuchs of the Grail / Jed Chandler -- Insinuating indeterminate gender: a castration motif in Guillaume de Lorris's Romans de la rose / Ellen Lorraine Friedrich -- Culture loves a void: eunuchry in De Vetula and Jean Le Fèvre's La Vieille / Robert L.A. Clark -- The dismemberment of will: early modern fear of castration / Karin Sellberg and Lena Wånggren.
• Publisher Details: Cambridge : D.S. Brewer
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 351 pages)
• Subjects: 809.02; Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism; Castration in literature; Castration; Civilization, Medieval; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary; HISTORY -- Europe -- Western; Castration; Castration in literature; Civilization, Medieval; Literature, Medieval; Kastration; Mittelalter; Kultur; Kastration; Castratie; Eunuchen; Literaire thema's; Geschiedbronnen; Europa; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782041108; 1782041109; 1299585280; 9781299585287
• Related ISBNs: 9781843843511; 184384351X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-343) and index.; Note: PDF.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.