Medievalists.net » Soul and Body http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Why All the Fuss about the Body? A Medievalist’s Perspective http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/04/why-all-the-fuss-about-the-body-a-medievalists-perspective/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/04/why-all-the-fuss-about-the-body-a-medievalists-perspective/#comments Sat, 05 May 2012 01:07:20 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=31537 erhaps some help is to be found in the usual scholarly move of sur- veying the literature. What does the phrase mean in the rapidly increas- ing number of books with the body in the title-an increase only too apparent to anyone who walks these days into a bookstore?

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/04/why-all-the-fuss-about-the-body-a-medievalists-perspective/feed/ 0 VAGANTES: Hālnes and hǽlþ:Anglo-Saxon Bodily Wellness http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/29/halnes-and-h%c7%bdlthanglo-saxon-bodily-wellness/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/29/halnes-and-h%c7%bdlthanglo-saxon-bodily-wellness/#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2012 03:38:48 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=30556 Since most of the surviving mentions of wellness relate to the health of the soul, it is not clear what constituted a healthy Anglo-Saxon body. This paper will use the Old English poem Soul and Body and Old English medical texts to explore Anglo-Saxon bodily wellness.

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