K. Walter 
Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture [PDF ebook] 

Skin is a multifarious image in medieval culture: the material basis for forming a sense of self and relation to the world, as well as a powerful literary and visual image. This book explores the presence of skin in medieval literature and culture from a range of literary, religious, aesthetic, historical, medical, and theoretical perspectives.

Table of Content

Introduction; Katie L. Walter 1. Wondrous Skins and Tactile Affection: The Blemmye’s Touch; Lara Farina 2. Noli me tangere : The Enigma of Touch in Middle English Religious Literature and Art for and about Women; Elizabeth Robertson 3. Havelok’s Bare Life and the Significance of Skin; Robert Mills 4. The Medieval Werewolf Model of Reading Skin; Susan Small 5. Cutaneous Time in the Late Medieval Literary Imagination; Isabel Davis 6. The Form of the Formless: Medieval Taxonomies of Skin, Flesh and the Human; Katie L. Walter 7. Discerning Skin: Complexion, Surgery and Language in Medieval Confession; Virginia Langum 8. Desire and Defacement in The Testament of Cresseid ; Julie Orlemanski 9. Touching Back: Responding to Reading Skin ; Karl Steel

About the author

Isabel Davis; Birkbeck College, University of London, UK Lara Farina; West Virginia University, USA Virgina Langum; Umeå University, Sweden Robert Mills; University College London, UK Julie Orlemanski; Boston College, USA Elizabeth Robertson; University of Glasgow, UK Susan Small; King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario, Canada Karl Steel; Brooklyn College of CUNY, USA