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Green, Monica. “Bodily Essences: Bodies as Categories of Difference.” In A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Medieval Age, edited by Linda Kalof, 141–62. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010.
This chapter discusses “marked bodies” in the Middle Ages. The chapter considers how the sex of the body is regarded as a marked difference through analysis of disease and disability. The chapter gives particular attention to the “internal” versus “external” body, and physiology compared to anatomy in the Middle Ages. The text also discusses how perceptions of religion changed ideas of the body. This work covers topics in science, gender, sex, religion, and disability studies.
