Corps Mystique, Corps Sacre

The body as erotic object pervades Western literature. This volume examines a variety of textual incarnations of the sacred and mystical body in French texts of the Medieval and Early Modern period. Articles examine Old French hagiography, epic and romance; Renaissance court ballet; seventeenth-century political treatises; memoirs of royal wedding ceremonies; and utopian, satirical, philosophical, and didactic literature. The intellectual scope of the volume covers topics as diverse as medieval scholasticism, seventeenth-century political thought, relations between representations of the male and female body, and the theatricalization of the body.

Editors' Preface: The Body into Text	p. 1
The Sacrality of One's Own Body in the Middle Ages	p. 5
Melusine's Hybrid Body and the Poetics of Metamorphosis	p. 18
Corpus Pascalis	p. 39
Bodies on Stage and the Production of Meaning	p. 56
The King's One Body in the Balet Comique de la Royale	p. 75
The Life of the Dead Body: Death and the Sacred in the chansons de geste	p. 94
Travels in Eucharistia: Formosa and Ireland from George Psalmanaazaar to Jonathan Swift	p. 109
Fables of the "Mystical Body" in Seventeenth-Century France	p. 126
Philosophical Antibodies: Grotesque Fantasy in a French Stoic Fiction	p. 143
The Male Psyche and the Female Sacred Body in Marie de France and Christine de Pizan	p. 164
Making Sweat: Sex and the Gender of National Reproduction in the Marriage of Louis XIII	p. 187
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