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Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Orlemanski, Julie, "How to kiss a leper", Postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies, 3 (2012), 142-157.
- Resum
- Episodes of kissing lepers appear in medieval holy lives from Sulpicius Severus's late-fourth-century vita of Martin of Tours to the early-fifteenth-century spiritual autobiography of Margery Kempe. How exactly did the leprous kiss function within medieval society? The following essay explores that question by way of a ‘historical phenomenology,' or investigation into what kind of experience kissing a leper was imagined to be in the Middle Ages. Building from the observation that the affective shock of the kiss gave it its medieval value, the essay argues that the gesture was understood to disrupt quotidian practices of recognition, defamiliarizing the face-to-face encounter and opening new perceptual and intersubjective possibilities. However, medieval narrative representations are generally one-sided, focusing almost exclusively on the experience of the able-bodied. While the leprous kiss pushed experiential and social limits, these ran up against the asymmetry of the kiss's imagining, the solipsism of its intimacy.
- Matèries
- Medicina - Pesta i altres malalties
Religió
- URL
- https://www.academia.edu/7509249/_How_To_Kiss_a_Leper_
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