{"product_id":"dark-age-bodies-lynda-l-coon-9780812242690","title":"Dark Age Bodies: Gender and Monastic Practice in the Early Medieval West","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDark Age Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e Lynda L. Coon reconstructs the gender ideology of monastic masculinity through an investigation of early medieval readings of the body. Focusing on the Carolingian era, Coon evaluates the ritual and liturgical performances of monastic bodies within the imaginative landscapes of same-sex ascetic communities in northern Europe. She demonstrates how the priestly body plays a significant role in shaping major aspects of Carolingian history, such as the revival of classicism, movements for clerical reform, and church-state relations. In the political realm, Carolingian churchmen consistently exploited monastic constructions of gender to assert the power of the monastery. Stressing the superior qualities of priestly virility, clerical elites forged a model of gender that sought to feminize lay male bodies through a variety of textual, ritual, and spatial means. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFocusing on three central themes--the body, architecture, and ritual practice--the book draws from a variety of visual and textual materials, including poetry, grammar manuals, rhetorical treatises, biblical exegesis, monastic regulations, hagiographies, illuminated manuscripts, building plans, and cloister design. Interdisciplinary in scope, \u003ci\u003eDark Age Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e brings together scholarship in architectural history and cultural anthropology with recent works in religion, classics, and gender to present a significant reconsideration of Carolingian culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lynda L. Coon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0812242696\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812242690\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/07\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2011","brand":"Lynda L. Coon","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46292898611455,"sku":"9780812242690","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_33135bc0-f983-4d0f-95c2-e5fbb9364cf4.jpg?v=1730210492","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dark-age-bodies-lynda-l-coon-9780812242690","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}