 | Dark Age Bodies: Gender and Monastic Practice in the Early Medieval West Subjects: Monastic and religious life -- History -- Middle Ages 600–1500; Men (Christian theology) -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages 600–1500; Human body -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages 600–1500; Rabanus Maurus; Dark Age Bodies reconstructs the gender ideology of monastic masculinity through an investigation of early medieval readings of the body and its parts. It brings together scholarship in architectural history and cultural anthropology to frame an important reconsideration of Carolingian culture. Lynda L. Coon is Associate Professor of History at the University of Arkansas. She is the author of Sacred Fictions: Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. |
