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[Journal].
Yale French Studies, no. 86 (1994):
Françoise Jouën and Benjamin Semple, eds. Corps Mystique, Corps Sacré: Textual Transfigurations of the Body from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century.
Published New Haven: Yale U.P.
ISBN 0300061935;
ISBN-13 9780300061932.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Vail Ballou Press, Binghampton.
Size: 154x233x16mm.
Page count: 208pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some mild scuffs and marks on the covers, a bit of wear on the edges with the corners starting to fray; some light foxing on the page edges; the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

This item £8.00
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[Publisher’s price $32.00/£12.50]
Weight without packaging: 349g.

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Contents:
Joën and Semple, Preface — body into text;
Boureau, Sacrality of one’s own body in the Middle Ages;
Brownlee, Melusine's hybrid body & the poetics of metamorphosis;
Cantillon, Corpus Pascalis;
Cazelles, Bodies on stage & the production of meaning;
Greene, The King’s One Body in the Balet Comique de la Royne;
Kay, Death & the sacred in the chansons de geste;
Lestringant, Formosa & Ireland from George Psalmanaazar to Jonathan Swift;
Merlin, Fables of the 'mystical body' in 17th‑c. France;
Murray, Grotesque fantasy in a French Stoic fiction;
Semple, Male psyche & female sacred body in Marie de France & Christine de Pizan;
Zanger, Sex & the gender of national reproduction in the marriage of Louis XIII.

Illustrations: 4, monochrome
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: no

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