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
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Catrien Santing , Barbara Baert and Anita Traninger
- Introduction / Catrien Santing and Barbara Baert
- Adam’s Skull / Marina Montesano
- Talking Heads, or, A Tale of Two Clerics / Robert Mills
- The Meaning of the Head in High Medieval Culture / Esther Cohen
- Securing the Sacred Head: Cephalophory and Relic Claims / Scott B. Montgomery
- The Johannesschüssel as Andachtsbild: The Gaze, The Medium and The Senses / Barbara Baert
- Chasing the Caput. Head Images of John the Baptist in a Political Conflict / Mateusz Kapustka
- The Self-Portrait ‘En Décapité’: Interpreting Artistic Self-Insertion / Arjan R. de Koomen
- Capita Selecta in Historia Sacra. Head Relics in Counter Reformation Rome (ca. 1570–ca. 1630) / Jetze Touber
- Framing the Face. Patterns of Presentation and Representation in Early Modern Dress and Portraiture / Bert Watteeuw
- ‘And I Bear Your Beautiful Face Painted on My Chest’. The Longevity of the Heart as the Primal Organ in the Renaissance / Catrien Santing
- Index Nominum / Catrien Santing , Barbara Baert and Anita Traninger