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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-29 - Publisher: Profile Books

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A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A triumph' Guardian 'Glorious ... makes the past at once familiar, exotic and thrilling.' Dominic Sandbrook 'A brillian
Framing Medieval Bodies
Language: en
Pages: 308
Authors: Sarah Kay
Categories: Body, Human
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Manchester University Press

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In this book, available at last in paperback, Kauppi develops a structural constructivist theory of the European Union and critically analyses, through French a
Promised Bodies
Language: en
Pages: 277
Authors: Patricia Dailey
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-08-27 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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In the Christian tradition, especially in the works of Paul, Augustine, and the exegetes of the Middle Ages, the body is a twofold entity consisting of inner an
Sufi Bodies
Language: en
Pages: 294
Authors: Shahzad Bashir
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-01 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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"Bashir weaves a rich history of Sufi Islam around the depiction of bodily actions in Sufi literature and miniature paintings produced circa 1300-1500 CE. Focus
Fallen Bodies
Language: en
Pages: 314
Authors: Dyan Elliott
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-03 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Medieval clerics believed that original sin had rendered their "fallen bodies" vulnerable to corrupting impulses—particularly those of a sexual nature. They f