Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 2599
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Howie , Cary.
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  • Title: Vision Beyond Measure: The Threshold of Iacopone's Bedroom
  • Source: Troubled Vision: Gender, Sexuality, and Sight in Medieval Text and Image.  Edited by Emma Campbell and Robert Mills.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.  Pages 139 - 153.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Devotional Literature Eroticism Jacopone da Todi, Poet Laude, Vernacular Hymns Literature- Verse Metonymy, Literary Device Rhetoric Sight
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  • Geographic Area: Italy
  • Century: 13
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  • Abstract: This chapter articulates and extends the relationship among eros, space, and visuality in the lyrics of the thirteenth-century devotional poet and polemicist Iacopone da Todi. Hyperbolic vision, vision beyond measure, exemplifies that intensification of the senses that Iacopone's participatory poetics at once spatially confines and sets loose. [(c) Emma Campbell and Robert Mills. Reprinted with permission from Palgrave Macmillan.]
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  • Author's Affiliation: Cornell University [Postdoctoral Fellow]
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  • Year of Publication: 2004.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 1403963436