Kathleen Biddick: 2 books
by Kathleen Biddick, Joan Wallach Scott
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 1998
In The Shock of Medievalism Kathleen Biddick explores the nineteenth-century foundations of medieval studies as an academic discipline as well as certain unexamined contemporary consequences of these origins. By pairing debates over current academic trends and issues with innovative readings of medieval...
The Typological Imaginary
Circumcision, Technology, History
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
In this book Kathleen Biddick investigates the fate of the enduring timelines fabricated by early Christians to distinguish themselves from their Jewish neighbors. Ranging widely across the history of text, technology, and book art, she relates three interwoven stories: the Christians' translation...