This study traces how medieval audiences judge bodies from Doomsday visions to beauty contests. Employing cultural and formalist approaches, this study breaks new ground on the historical obsession about ends and changes, reflected in different genres spanning several hundred years.

Autorentext
SACHI SHIMOMURA is Assistant Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction: Time and the Audiences of Visual Judgment Visualizing Judgment in Anglo-Saxon England: Illumination, Metaphor, and Christ III "Sum vnto bale and sum to blis": From Binary Judgment to Romance Closure "Unto hir lyves ende": Time and the Wife of Bath's Remembered Bodies Conclusion: Romance Ends, or Transforming Closure in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight