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Tactile Theology : = Gender, Misogyny, and Possibility in Medieval English Literature.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Tactile Theology :/
其他題名:	Gender, Misogyny, and Possibility in Medieval English Literature.
作者:	Hoffman, Nicholas.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (467 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-08, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-08A.
標題:	Medieval literature. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30303408click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798363524639

Tactile Theology : = Gender, Misogyny, and Possibility in Medieval English Literature.
Hoffman, Nicholas.

Tactile Theology :Gender, Misogyny, and Possibility in Medieval English Literature. - 1 online resource (467 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-08, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

No surviving medieval text puts forward an explicit theologia tangendi (a "theology of touching"). Still, the religious literature of the English Middle Ages is nonetheless replete with devotional acts of touching, reaching, grasping, holding, shaping, and caressing. Touch may constitute one small facet of the phenomenology of religion, but it requires more scholarly attention. That the literature and material culture of the Christian Middle Ages were often oriented toward achieving contact with the divine underscores the need to consider the theological implications of touch. This dissertation puts a name to these myriad, disconnected references to touching that crop up across medieval English literature - a "tactile theology" that acknowledges the centrality of the hands in medieval texts, the lives of those texts, and the lives of their writers and readers. Put simply, tactile theology is a reciprocal process: just as theology shaped medieval understandings of touch, acts of touching, in turn, were avenues for approaching theological questions. The dissertation takes as its primary focus the touch and embodied experience of medieval women because gender difference in the Middle Ages was often described in theological and sensory terms. Using tactile theology as a lens for teasing out the significance of tactile language and metaphor, the following chapters explore how medieval readers and writers considered (sometimes in conflicting terms) women's embodiment and women's participation in religious life. Individual chapters offer case studies in the Junius 11 manuscript of Old English biblical poetry (particularly Genesis B, ca. 960-990), the thirteenth-century Ancrene Wisse (ca. 1225) alongside one of its fifteenth-century Latin translations, and the Book of Margery Kempe (ca. 1438). A final chapter on the medievalism of Emily Dickinson further underscores how tactile theology supports productive readings of women's writing beyond the traditional temporal boundaries of the Middle Ages. Ultimately, close readings of these texts advocate for a greater appreciation of the diverse representations of women's touch in the English Middle Ages. Though touch was central to misogynistic discourses that considered women's hands corrupting, ungovernable, or essentially flawed devices, these texts also reveal how medieval women themselves navigated these discourses and forged their own religious lives, creating textured devotional worlds of their own.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798363524639Subjects--Topical Terms:

3168324
Medieval literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Medieval literatureIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

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