A complex delight : the secularization of the breast, 1350-1750

Author(s)

• Miles, Margaret Ruth

Bibliographic Information

A complex delight : the secularization of the breast, 1350-1750

Margaret R. Miles

University of California Press, c2008

• : cloth

Note

Bibliography: p. 165-170

Includes index

Contents of Works

• The secularization of the breast
• The religious breast
• The virgin's one bare breast
• Mary Magdalen's penitent breast
• The secular breast
• The anatomical breast
• The pornographic breast
• Afterword : a complex delight

Details

• NCID: BA8895649X
• ISBN:
  • 9780520253483
• LCCN: 2007029484
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Berkeley, Calif.
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 177 p., [12] p. of plates
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BT741.3
  • DC22 : 233/.5
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Breast -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
  • LCSH : Body, Human -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
  • LCSH : Breast -- Social aspects