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Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic

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Description for Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic Paperback. Analyzes medieval Jewish, Christian, and Muslim uses of gendered bodily imagery and metaphors of impurity in their visual and verbal polemic against one another. This book examines attitudes toward the corporeal body and its relationship to divinity. Num Pages: 448 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBB; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 594.

In Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic, Alexandra Cuffel analyzes medieval Jewish, Christian, and Muslim uses of gendered bodily imagery and metaphors of impurity in their visual and verbal polemic against one another. Drawing from a rich array of sources—including medical texts, bestiaries, Muslim apocalyptic texts, midrash, biblical commentaries, kabbalistic literature, Hebrew liturgical poetry, and theological tracts from late antiquity to the mid-fourteenth century—Cuffel examines attitudes toward the corporeal body and its relationship to divinity. She shows that these religious traditions shared notions of the human body as distasteful, with many believers viewing corporeality and communion with the divine as ... Read more

Foul smell, bodily fluids and states, and animals were employed by these religious communities as powerful tropes, which they used to mark their religious opponents as sinful, filthy, and unacceptable. By defining and denigrating the religious “other,” each group wielded bodily insult as a means of resistance, of inciting violence, and of creating community boundaries. Representations of impurity or filth designed to inspire revulsion served also to reassure audiences of their religious and sometimes physical superiority and to encourage oppressive measures toward the minority.

Yet, even in the midst of opposing one another, their very polemic demonstrates that Jews, Christians, and Muslims held basic cultural assumptions and symbols in common while inflecting their meanings differently.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268023676
SKU
V9780268023676
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About Alexandra Cuffel
Alexandra Cuffel is assistant professor of history at Macalester College.

Reviews for Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic
“Alexandra Cuffel's bold study interprets the inter-religious polemic of medieval Jews, Christians and Muslims in the context of late-antique disgust for the body, especially the female body, shared by all three traditions. This will be a very influential book for medievalists in many fields.” —E. Ann Matter, University of Pennsylvania “With Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic, Alexandra Cuffel has ... Read more

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