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Sinfulness, Sanctity and Bodily Transgressions: Representations of Ageing, Disability and Impairment in Late-Medieval Drama

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العنوان: Sinfulness, Sanctity and Bodily Transgressions: Representations of Ageing, Disability and Impairment in Late-Medieval Drama
Alternate Title: Pecado, santidade e transgressão corporal: representações de deficiencias físicas no drama tardo-medieval
المؤلفون: Smith, Helen Frances
المصدر: Mirabilia: electronic journal of antiquity and middle ages; Núm. 18 (2014): January-June: Pleasure in the Middle Ages; p. 206-224
Publication Status: published
بيانات النشر: Mirabilia: electronic journal of antiquity and middle ages, 2014.
سنة النشر: 2014
مصطلحات موضوعية: Late-Medieval, Drama, Disability, Physiognomy, Sinfulness, Idade Média Tardia, Deficiência, Fisionomia, Pecado
الوصف: The relationship between the textual and physical representations of the disabled or impaired body and morality is an intriguing and complex area to explore in medieval literary and dramatic culture. In medieval thought, since the body and soul were seen as inextricably linked, different sins were thought to take their own physiological effects upon the body. While sexual sin, for instance, was thought to cause leprosy, the sin of avarice was thought to cause premature ageing. Yet, physical disability or impairment, and other bodily transgressions, as cultural constructs, were not always negatively received in society. Affliction could be a means of grace rather than punishment, and there is evidence that monks even prayed for physical and mental affliction to regain a state of purity. In order to explore how disability, impairment and bodily transgression is represented in the context of sinfulness and the ageing body, this paper will use a moral spectrum of characters as well as historical evidence.
A relação entre a representação física e textual do corpo com deficiência e a moralidade é uma complexa e intrigante área para se explorar na cultura literária e dramática medieval. No pensamento medieval, uma vez que o corpo e a alma eram vistos como intrinsecamente ligados, diferentes pecados assumiam seus próprios efeitos fisiológicos no corpo. Enquanto o pecado sexual, por exemplo, era imaginado como o causador da lepra, o pecado da avareza era encarado como causa de envelhecimento prematuro. Ainda assim, deficiências físicas e outras transgressões corporais, enquanto construtos culturais, não foram sempre recebidas negativamente na sociedade. Tal aflição poderia ser uma forma de graça em contraste à penitencia, e existem evidencias de que monges rezavam por aflição mental e física para reconquistar um estado de pureza. De maneira a explorar como as deficiências e as transgressões corporais eram representadas num contexto de pecado e envelhecimento do corpo, este artigo irá usar um espectro moral de características, bem como evidencias históricas.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: application/pdf
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1676-5818
Relation: https://www.raco.cat/index.php/Mirabilia/article/view/305857/395770
URL الوصول: https://www.raco.cat/index.php/Mirabilia/article/view/305857
رقم الأكسشن: edsrac.305857
قاعدة البيانات: RACO (Revistes Catalanes amb Accés Obert)