The Jewish body: a history
by Jütte, Robert, Bredeck, Elizabeth
fromJewish culture and contexts
These seven essays by noted historian Caroline Walker Bynum exemplify her argument that historians must write in a "comic" mode, aware of history's artifice, risks, and incompletion. Exploring a diverse array of medieval texts, the essays show how women were able to appropriate …
"Catherine Despeux's book is a study of the Internal Alchemical text "Chart for the Cultivation of Perfection." It begins with an analysis of pictographic and symbolic representation of the body in early Taoism after which the author examines different extant versions of the "Ch…
De la abstinencia de los clérigos a las delicias de la abundancia, del desarrollo del cristianismo a la persistencia del paganismo, de la risa al llanto, de la indumentaria a los hábitos alimenticios, del celibato al amor cortés, se esboza una historia total del cuerpo que permi…