Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh Karma Lochrie "A feminist analysis of the writing of the fifteenth-century English mystic, showing how Kempe exploited the gendered ideologies of flesh and text, violated taboos, and responded to the constraints of her time."--Book News, Inc. Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1999 Karma Lochrie demonstrates that women were associated not with the body but rather with the flesh, that disruptive aspect of body and soul which Augustine claimed was fissured with the Fall of Man. It is within this framework that she...
Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh Karma Lochrie "A feminist analysis of the writing of the fifteenth-century English mystic, showing how Kem...
This collection brings together essays from various disciplinary perspectives to consider how the Middle Ages defined, regulated, and represented sexual practices and desires. Considering sexuality in relation to gender, the body, and identity, the essays explore medieval sexuality as a historical construction produced by and embedded in the cultures and institutions of the period. 17 photos.
This collection brings together essays from various disciplinary perspectives to consider how the Middle Ages defined, regulated, and represented sexu...
Covert Operations The Medieval Uses of Secrecy Karma Lochrie "Lochrie takes a significant feature of medieval culture, secrecy, and translates the issues it raises to urgent contemporary concerns while still illuminating their meaning within medieval contexts. Her writing is lucid and concise while at the same time suggestive and provocative. She has an unerring eye for detail, and an impressive ability to argue through example. This is an important book."--Larry Scanlon, Rutgers University "Engaging and innovative. . . . The present volume offers exemplary close readings of primary works...
Covert Operations The Medieval Uses of Secrecy Karma Lochrie "Lochrie takes a significant feature of medieval culture, secrecy, and translates the iss...
Literary and cultural historians typically cite Thomas More's 1516 Utopia as the source of both a genre and a concept. Karma Lochrie rejects this origin myth of utopianism along with the assumption that people in the Middle Ages were incapable of such thinking. In Nowhere in the Middle Ages, Lochrie reframes the terms of the discussion by revealing how utopian thought was, in fact, "somewhere" in the Middle Ages. In the process, she transforms conventional readings of More's Utopia and challenges the very practice of literary history today.
Drawing on a range of...
Literary and cultural historians typically cite Thomas More's 1516 Utopia as the source of both a genre and a concept. Karma Lochrie rejects...
