Argues that one incarnation of monstrosity in the Middle Ages - the female body - exists in special relation to medieval conceptualizations of the monstrous
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Argues that one incarnation of monstrosity in the Middle Ages - the female body - exists in special relation to medieval conceptualizations of the monstrous
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: The Monstrous Borders of the Female Body; Part I Ovidian Poetry; 1 Virgins, Mothers, and Monsters: Ovidian and Pseudo-Ovidian Bodies; Part II Gynecology; 2 Gynecological Secrets: Blood, Seed, and Monstrous Births in De Secretis Mulierum; Part III Mystical Theology; 3 Monstrous Love: The Permeable Body of Christ in Julian of Norwich's Showings; Conclusion: The Monstrous Borders of the Self; Notes; Bibliography; Index