Disembodied Heads in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

✍ Scribed by Catrien Santing, Barbara Baert, Anita Traninger

Publisher: BRILL
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 332
Series: Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture, 28
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Discussing medieval and early modern 'disembodied heads' this collection questions the why and how of the primacy of the head in the bodily hierarchy during the premodern period. On the basis of beliefs, mythologies and traditions concerning the head, they come to an cultural anatomy of the head.

✦ Subjects

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