Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture

1. Introduction
Katie L. Walter

2. Wondrous Skins and Tactile Affection: The Blemmye’s Touch
Lara Farina

3. Noli me Tangere: The Enigma of Touch in Middle English Religious Literature and Art for and About Women
Elizabeth Robertson

4. Havelok’s Bare Life and the Significance of Skin
Robert Mills

5. The Medieval Werewolf Model of Reading Skin
Susan Small

6. Cutaneous Time in the Late Medieval Literary Imagination
Isabel Davis

7. The Form of the Formless: Medieval Taxonomies of Skin, Flesh, and the Human
Katie L. Walter

8. Discerning Skin: Complexion, Surgery, and Language in Medieval Confession
Virginia Langum

9. Desire and Defacement In The Testament of Cresseid

Julie Orlemanski

10. Touching Back: Responding to Reading Skin

Karl Steel

Avainsanat: Literature, Medieval Literature, Arts, History of Medieval Europe, Cultural Anthropology, Literary History, World History, Global and Transnational History