Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture (Paperback)

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