Chapter 9 Marking the Face, Curing the Soul? Reading the Disfigurement of Women in the Later Middle Ages

Current preoccupations with the body have led to a growing interest in the intersections between religion, literature and the history of medicine, and, more specifically, how they converge within a given culture. This collection of essays explores the ways in which aspects of medieval culture were p...

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Main Author: Kukita Yoshikawa, Naoë (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Boydell & Brewer 2015
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