¹ Stanley Cavell, Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 2005), 180.

² This line of thought began in conversation with Sarah Beckwith and Heather Hirschfeld, for which I’m grateful. The work of Sarah Beckwith has powerfully influenced the consensus I cite below. See for instance her Christ’s Body: Identity, Culture and Society in Late Medieval Writings (New York: Routledge, 1996).