Form and Foreskin: Medieval Narratives of Circumcision by A.W. Strouse

Form and Foreskin: Medieval Narratives of Circumcision

A.W. Strouse

144 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction gender history religion funny informative slow-paced
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Why did Saint Augustine ask God to “circumcise [his] lips”? Why does Sir Gawain cut off the Green Knight’s head on the Feast of the Circumcision? Is Chaucer’s Wife of Bath actually—as an early glossator figures her—a foreskin? And why did Ezra Pou...

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