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Fallen Bodies

Fallen Bodies

Fallen Bodies

Dyan Elliott

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Editorial:
University of Pennsylvania Press
Año de edición:
1998
Materia
Historia de la religión
ISBN:
9780812216653
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'Lyrical in parts, this is a deep and reflective reading of those clusters of contradictory images which attempted to make sense of the exultant and the vulnerable in medieval bodies. Dyan Elliott offers a potent combination of the rigor of textual analys

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