Chapter 3 Visible Prowess?: Reading Men's Head and Face Wounds in Early Medieval Europe to 1000 CE

DeVries, Kelly

Chapter 3 Visible Prowess?: Reading Men's Head and Face Wounds in Early Medieval Europe to 1000 CE - Brill 2015 - 1 electronic resource (645 p.)

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The spectacle of the wounded body figured prominently in the Middle Ages, from images of Christ's wounds on the cross, to the ripped and torn bodies of tortured saints who miraculously heal through divine intervention, to graphic accounts of battlefield and tournament wounds-evidence of which survives in the archaeological record-and literary episodes of fatal (or not so fatal) wounds. This volume offers a comprehensive look at the complexity of wounding and wound repair in medieval literature and culture, bringing together essays from a wide range of sources and disciplines including arms and armaments, military history, medical history, literature, art history, hagiography, and archaeology across medieval and early modern Europe. Contributors are Stephen Atkinson, Debby Banham, Albrecht Classen, Joshua Easterling, Charlene M. Eska, Carmel Ferragud, M.R. Geldof, Elina Gertsman, Barbara A. Goodman, Máire Johnson, Rachel E. Kellett, Ilana Krug, Virginia Langum, Michael Livingston, Iain A. MacInnes, Timothy May, Vibeke Olson, Salvador Ryan, William Sayers, Patricia Skinner, Alicia Spencer-Hall, Wendy J. Turner, Christine Voth, and Robert C. Woosnam-Savage.


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English

oapen_606734 9789004306455

10.26530/oapen_606734 doi


History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400
Literature & literary studies
Medieval history
Military history
History of medicine

medieval culture middle ages wound repair wounded body wounding medieval literature medieval culture middle ages wound repair wounded body wounding medieval literature Early Middle Ages Hanover London Monumenta Germaniae Historica Skull

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