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Title Disembodied heads in medieval and early modern culture / edited by Catrien Santing, Barbara Baert, & Anita Traninger.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 311 pages).
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Series Intersections ; volume 28
Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 28.
Note Outcome of a two-day conference held at the Academia Belgica and the Royal Dutch Institute at Rome.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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 Johannesschussel 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 Decapite': Interpreting Artistic Self-Insertion / Arjan R. de Koomen -- Capita Selecta in Historia Sacra. Head Relics in Counter Reformation Rome (1570CA.-1630CA.) / 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.
Summary 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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Subject Head -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
Head -- Social aspects.
Head.
Human body -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
Human body -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Baert, Barbara, editor.
Traninger, Anita, editor.
Santing, Catrien, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Disembodied heads in medieval and early modern culture 9789004253544
ISBN 9789004253551 (electronic book)
9004253556 (electronic book)
1299808220 (e-book)
9781299808225 (e-book)
9004253548 (hardback : alkaline paper)
9789004253544 (hardback : alkaline paper)
9789004253544
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