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Dark age bodies : gender and monastic practice in the early medieval West

Lynda L. Coon (Author)
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

eBook, English, ©2011
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