Disembodied heads in medieval and early modern culture
Do heads excite a desire to chop them off; a desire to decapitate and take a human life, as anthropologists have suggested? The contributors to this book are fascinated by ‘disembodied heads’, which are pursued in their many medieval and early modern disguises and representations, including the meta...
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Format: | Electronic Book |
Language: | English |
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Boston :
Brill,
2013
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Edition: | 1st ed |
Series: | Intersections
28 |
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