{"product_id":"the-ends-of-the-body-suzanne-conklin-akbari-9781442644700","title":"The Ends of the Body: Identity and Community in Medieval Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eDrawing on Arabic, English, French, Irish, Latin and Spanish sources, the essays share a focus on the body's productive capacity - whether expressed through the flesh's materiality, or through its role in performing meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collection is divided into four clusters. 'Foundations' traces the use of physical remnants of the body in the form of relics or memorial monuments that replicate the form of the body as foundational in communal structures; 'Performing the Body' focuses on the ways in which the individual body functions as the medium through which the social body is maintained; 'Bodily Rhetoric' explores the poetic linkage of body and meaning; and 'Material Bodies' engages with the processes of corporeal being, ranging from the energetic flow of humoural liquids to the decay of the flesh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTogether, the essays provide new perspectives on the centrality of the medieval body and underscore the vitality of this rich field of study.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Suzanne Conklin Akbari,Jill Ross\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1442644702\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781442644700\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/29\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.20d","brand":"Suzanne Conklin Akbari","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48013929808127,"sku":"9781442644700","price":88.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_14b2b1f5-5a90-46e9-a96b-6460eb3d73da.jpg?v=1767745651","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-ends-of-the-body-suzanne-conklin-akbari-9781442644700","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}