Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction: Limits and Teleology. The Many Ends of the Body 3
6. Part One: Foundations
7. 1. Books, Bodies, and Bones: Hilduin of St-Denis and the Relics of St Dionysius 25
8. 2. Death Is Not the End: The Encounter of the Three Living and the Three Dead in the Berlin Hours of Mary of Burgundy and Maximilian I 61
9. 3. The Good Death of Richard Whittington: Corpse and Corporation 86
10. Part Two: Bodily Rhetoric
11. 4. An Epic Incarnation of Salvation: The Function of the Body in the Eupolemius 113
12. 5. Losing Face: Heroic Discourse and Inscription in Flesh in Scéla Mucce Meic Dathó 132
13. 6. The Dazzling Sword of Language: Masculinity and Persuasion in Classical and Medieval Rhetoric 153
14. Part Three: Performing the Body
15. 7. Amputating the Traitor: Healing the Social Body in Public Executions for Treason in Late Medieval England 177
16. 8. ‘A Defect of the Mind or Body’: Impotence and Sexuality in Medieval Theology and Canon Law 193
17. 9. Bodily Performances and Body Talk in Medieval Islamic Preaching 211
18. Part Four: Material Body
19. 10. The Leprous Body in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Rouen: Perceptions and Responses 239
20. 11. The Feminine Flesh in the Disputacione betwyx the Body and Wormes 260
21. 12. Death as Metamorphosis in the Devotional and Political Allegory of Christine de Pizan 283
22. Contributors 315
23. Index 319