Medieval Identity Machines

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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Medieval Identity Machines (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003), “Chevalerie,” pp. 35-77

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A groundbreaking work in its argument that chivalry produces a human inseparably conjoined with war technologies and warhorse. “The animal . . . leads us to a middle space where allegories and moralizations seem insufficient in their power to contain. It is a place of dispersal, multiple agency, and intercorporeality.” - SUSAN CRANE