Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic

Name: Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic
ISBN: 9780268023676

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In Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic, Alexandra Cuffel analyzes medieval Jewish, Christian, and Muslim uses of gendered bodily imagery and metaphors of impurity in their visual and verbal polemic against one another.

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First published: 2022
Publishers: University of Notre Dame Press

Alexandra Cuffel's Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic explores the conceptions of bodily filth and ritual pollution, especially regarding the female body, in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim texts. Chronologically her study stretches from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages, focusing on the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.