Notre Dame, Ind. : Univ. of Notre Dame Press, c2007
Extent:
XVIII, 430 S. : IIl. ; 23 cm
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:
0-268-02367-0 (pbk) : No price pbk
978-0-268-02367-6 : pbk. (alk. paper)
Notes:
The stench of humanity : corporeality and the divine in late antique religious thought -- The seeds of rotten fruit : corporeal disgust and impurity as late antique and early medieval religious polemic -- Twelfth- and thirteenth-century contexts -- Filthy womb and foul believers : the incarnation and holy spaces in the Jewish-Christian-Muslim debate -- Impure, sickly bodies -- Signs of the beast : animal metaphors as maledictions of resistance and oppression
