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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coon, Lynda L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011]
Series:Middle Ages series.
Subjects:
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.
Benedict, > Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino. > Regula.
Rabanus Maurus, > Archbishop of Mainz, > 784?-856.
Electronic books.
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Table of 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.