Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-285) and index.
Introduction / Monica H. Green -- Birth and death / Katharine Park -- Health, disease, and the medieval body / Ann G. Carmichael -- The sexual body / Ruth Mazo Karras and Jacqueline Murray -- The body inferred : knowing the body through the dissection of texts / Fernando Salmón -- Bodies and the supernatural : humans, demons, and angels -- Beautiful bodies / Montserrat Cabré -- Bodily essences : bodies as categories of difference / Monica H. Green -- The diversity of human kind / Monica H. Green -- Cultural representations of the body / Samantha Riches and Bettina Bildhauer -- Self and society / Sylvia Huot.