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At the very heart of Christian doctrine and late medieval practice was the image of the crucified Christ. Sarah Beckwith examines the social meaning of this image across a range of key devotional English texts, using insights from anthropology and cultural studies. The image of the crucified Christ, she argues, acted as a place where the tensions between the sacred and the profane, the individual and the collective, were played out. The medieval obsession with the contours of Christ's body functioned to challenge and transform social and political relations. A fascinating and challenging book of interest not only to students of medieval literature, but also to cultural historians and women's studies specialists. Review Beckwith associates the familiar medieval metaphors of the King's body, the body politic, the church as a body of Christ--its members organically and hierarchically related-- with the centrality of eucharistic piety, crucifixion imagery, and Corpus Christ in late-medieval religious culture. –*Speculum * This is a brilliant study of Christ's body--incarnate, physical, and suffering--as the symbolic template for understanding late-medieval devotional texts.... –*Studi

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Author

Sarah Beckwith

Publisher

Routledge

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9781280149931

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Religion, Christian