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Naked before God: uncovering the body in Anglo-Saxon England

Benjamin C. Withers and Jonathan Wilcox

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Frontmatter
List of Illustrations (page vii)
List of Abbreviations (page xi)
Acknowledgments (page xii)
Forward: Uncovering the Body in Anglo-Saxon England (Benjamin C. Withers, Indiana University South Bend, page 1)
Introduction: Medieval Bodies Then and Now: Negotiating Problems of Ambivalence and Paradox (Suzanne Lewis, Stanford University, page 15)
1. The Wanton Hand: Reading and Reaching Into Grammars and Bodies in Old English Riddle 12 (Sarah L. Higley, University of Rochester, page 29)
2. The Key to the Body: Unlocking Riddles 42-46 (Mercedes Salvador, Universidad de Sevilla, page 60)
3. The Body as Text in Early Anglo-Saxon Law (Mary P. Richards, University of Delaware, page 97)
4. The Sacrificial Synecdoche of Hands, Heads, and Arms in Anglo-Saxon Heroic Story (John M. Hill, United Sates Naval Academy, page 116)
5. Nudity on the Margins: The Bayeux Tapestry and Its Relationship to Marginal Architectural Sculpture (Karen Rose Mathews, University of Washington, page 138)
6. The Donestre and the Person of Both Sexes (Susan M. Kim, Illinois State University, page 162)
7. Exiles from the Kingdom: The Naked and the Damned in Anglo-Saxon Art (Catherine E. Karkov, Miami University, Ohio, page 181)
8. Breasts and Babies: The Maternal Body of Eve in the Junius 11 Genesis (Mary Dockray-Miller, Lesley University, page 221)
9. Penitential Nakedness and the Junius 11 Genesis (Janet S. Erickson, University of Minnesota-Morris, page 257)
10. Naked in Old English: The Embarrassed and the Shamed (Jonathan Wilcox, University of Iowa, page 275)
Index (page 310)

Citable Link

Published: c2003

Publisher: West Virginia University Press

ISBN(s)

9781935978374 (ebook)
9780937058688 (paper)

Series

Medieval European Studies

Subject

European: 400-1400