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Beards and Texts explores the literary portrayal of beards in medieval German texts from the mid-twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries.

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9781787352223

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'a masterclass in close reading: even if beards aren't your thing, this is a book worth reading simply for the pleasure of seeing this most fundamental skill of literary scholarship employed so well.' The Medieval Review 'Beards and Texts succeeds in outlining the salient dimensions of beards within the wider framework of the medieval, German-speaking norms of masculinity.' Journal of English and Germanic Philology 'a meticulous study, teasing out many interesting details that have so far gone unnoticed in otherwise well-studied texts' The German Quarterly

'a meticulous study, teasing out many interesting details that have so far gone unnoticed in otherwise well-studied texts' The German Quarterly

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Sebastian Coxon is Reader in German at UCL. He joined the Department of German (SELCS) in 2000, having studied in Oxford and Cologne. His principal field of research is medieval German literature. His main research interests include laughter and comedy, historical narratology and beards.

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