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Marti, Kevin

Body, Heart, and Text in the Pearl-Poet
1991 0-7734-9764-1
This book argues that discourse on the body in Western European literature must begin by considering how the body served as the most basic medieval matrix for understanding reality; the modern `rediscovery' of the body and the modern focus on interdisciplinary perspectives constitute a return to medieval ways of knowing.