Disembodied Heads in Medieval and Early Modern Culture ( 1 )

Publication series ：1

Author： Baert   Barbara;Anita   Traninger;Santing   Catrien  

Publisher： Brill‎

Publication year： 2013

E-ISBN: 9789004253551

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789004253544

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9789004253544

Subject： K1 World History

Keyword： 世界史

Language： ENG

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Description

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.

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Notes on the Editors

Notes on the Contributors

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Adam’s Skull

Talking Heads, or, A Tale of Two Clerics

The Meaning of the Head in High Medieval Culture

Securing the Sacred Head: Cephalophory and Relic Claims

The Johannesschüssel as Andachtsbild: The Gaze, The Medium and the Senses

Chasing the Caput. Head Images of John the Baptist in a Political Conflict

The Self-Portrait ‘En Décapité’: Interpreting Artistic Self-Insertion

Capita Selecta in Historia Sacra. Head Relics in Counter Reformation Rome (ca. 1570–ca. 1630)

Framing the Face. Patterns of Presentation and Representation in Early Modern Dress and Portraiture

‘And I Bear Your Beautiful Face Painted on My Chest’. The Longevity of the Heart as the Primal Organ in the Renaissance

Index Nominum

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