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WRITING ON SKIN IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER BUCHREI...

Owing to its relatedness to parchment as the primary writing matter of the Middle Ages  human
skin was not only a topic to write about in medieval texts  it was also conceived of as an
inscribable surface  both in the material and in the figurative sense. This volume explores the
textuality of human skin as discussed by Geoffrey Chaucer and other writers (medical  religious
philosophical  and literary) of the fourteenth and fifteenth century. It presents four main
aspects of the complex relations between text  parchment  and human skin as they have been
discussed in recent scholarship. These four aspects are  first  the (mostly figurative)
resonances between parchment-making and transformations of human skin  second  parchment as a
space of contact between animal and human spheres  third  human skin and parchment as sites
where (gender) identities are negotiated  and fourth  the place of medieval skin studies within
cultural studies and its relationship to the major concerns of cultural studies: the difficult
demarcation of skin from body  the instability of any inscription  and the skin's precarious
state as an entity of its own.

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