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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