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Author Coon, Lynda L., author.

Title Dark age bodies : gender and monastic practice in the early medieval West / Lynda L. Coon
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 390 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Series Middle Ages series
Contents "Hrabanus is my name" -- A Carolingian aesthetic of bricolage -- Gendering the Benedictine rule -- Carolingian practices of the rule -- Inscribing the rule onto Carolingian sacred space -- Gendering the plan of Saint Gall -- Foursquare power
Summary 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
Analysis "Multi-User"
Notes OldControl:muse9780812204919
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-373) and index
Notes In English
Print version record
Subject Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino. Regula.
Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz, 784?-856.
SUBJECT Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino. Regula
Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz, 784?-856
Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz, 784?-856 fast
Regula (Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino) fast
Subject Human body -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
Men (Christian theology) -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
Monastic and religious life -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
HISTORY -- Medieval.
Monastic and religious life -- Middle Ages
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812204919
0812204913