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

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In "Dark Age Bodies," Lynda L. Coon reconstructs the gender ideology of monastic masculinity through an investigation of early medieval readings of the body. Focusing on the Carolingian era, Coon evaluates the ritual and liturgical performances of monastic bodies within the imaginative lan...

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Main Author: Coon, Lynda L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011]
Series:Middle Ages series.
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, > Archbishop of Mainz, > 784?-856.
Benedict, > Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino. > Regula.

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