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Miller Argues That One Incarnation Of Monstrosity In The Middle Ages - The Female Body - Exists In Special Relation To Medieval Conceptualizations Of The Monstrous. She Considers Several Significant Texts Representing Authoritative Discourses On Female Monstrosity In The Middle Ages. Introduction: The Monstrous Borders Of The Female Body -- Ovidian Poetry -- Virgins, Mothers, And Monsters: Ovidian And Pseudo-ovidian Bodies -- Gynecology -- Gynecological Secrets: Blood, Seed, And Monstrous Births In De Secretis Mulierum -- Mystical Theology -- Monstrous Love: The Permeable Body Of Christ In Julian Of Norwich's Showings -- Conclusion: The Monstrous Borders Of The Self. Sarah Alison Miller. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [189]-204) And Index.