Form and Foreskin: Medieval Narratives of Circumcision.

Author / Editor
Strouse, A. W.

Title
Form and Foreskin: Medieval Narratives of Circumcision.

Published
New York: Fordham University Press, 2021.

Physical Description
[165 pp.]

Description
Uses Pauline "theo-poetics of circumcision" to explore circumcision and "uncircumcision" as hermeneutic tropes, focusing on allegoresis and amplification, and analyzing queerly Augustine's Boy with a Long Foreskin" (from "De Genesi ad litteram"); "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"; and, in Chapter 3, "The Foreskin of Marriage," WBT. Identifies medieval association of marriage and "the allegorical praeputium" in the latter and suggests that the "Wife vernacularizes and feminizes the 'Latinate praeputium' in order to circumcise the marriage plot."

Alternative Title
The Foreskin of Marriage

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale