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Annie Sutherland
Enclosure and Exposure
Locating the ‘House without Walls’
This chapter explores medieval exegetical and affective characterizations of the birthplace of Christ. It focuses in particular on evocations of this birthplace as an exposed, liminal location and argues that the radical exposure endured by Christ at the moment of his birth was crucial to medieval understandings of the significance of the Incarnation. But it also points out that its condition of openness is always in a dialectical relationship with its capacity to enclose and protect.
Keywords: enclosure; exposure; vulnerability; Latin; Middle English; the Nativity; exegesis
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Enclosure and Exposure
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Locating the ‘House without Walls’
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Annie Sutherland
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This chapter explores medieval exegetical and affective characterizations of the birthplace of Christ. It focuses in particular on evocations of this birthplace as an exposed, liminal location and argues that the radical exposure endured by Christ at the moment of his birth was crucial to medieval understandings of the significance of the Incarnation. But it also points out that its condition of openness is always in a dialectical relationship with its capacity to enclose and protect.
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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19 April 2022
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enclosure
exposure
vulnerability
Latin
Middle English
the Nativity
exegesis
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© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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en-GB
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145
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167
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Openness in Medieval Europe, ed. by Manuele Gragnolati and Almut Suerbaum, Cultural Inquiry, 23 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022), pp. 145–67
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Cite as:
Annie Sutherland, ‘Enclosure and Exposure: Locating the “House without Walls”’, in Openness in Medieval Europe, ed. by Manuele Gragnolati and Almut Suerbaum, Cultural Inquiry, 23 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022), pp. 145-67 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-23_08>