| Description |
1 online resource (386 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts,
0925-7683 ;
v. 7
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Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts ; v. 7.
0925-7683
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| Contents |
Preface: Losing Your Head; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Introduction; Non potest hoc corpus decollari: Beheading and the Impossible; Execution and Hagiography; "Like a Virgin": The Reheading of St. Edmund and Monastic Reform in Late-Tenth-Century England; A Crowning Achievement: The Royal Execution and Damnation of Eadric Streona; Decapitation, Martyrdom, and Late Medieval Execution Practices in The Book of Margery Kempe; Continental Narratives of Punishment and Othering; Talking Heads in Hell: Dante's Use of Severed Heads in Inferno. |
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Severed Silence: Social Boundaries and Family Honor in Boccaccio's "Tale of Lisabetta"The Headless Giant: The Function of Severed Heads in the Ahistorical (Aventiurehafte) Dietrich Epics; English Romance and Reality; "To be a 'Fleschhewere' ": Beheading, Butcher Knights, and Blood-Taboos in Octavian Imperator; The Werewolf at the Head Table: Metatheatric "subtlety" in Arthur and Gorlagon; "So he smote of hir hede by myssefortune": The Real Price of the Beheading Game in SGGK and Malory; Early Modern Practice and Imagination. |
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"At the time of his death": The Contested Narrative of Sir Walter Ralegh's Beheading"Killing swine" and planting heads in Shakespeare's Macbeth; "Tucked Beneath Her Arm": Culture, Ideology, and Fantasy in the Curious Legend of Anne Boleyn; "Answering the Call of the Severed Head"; Bibliography; Index; Illustrations. |
| Summary |
Capitalizing upon the enduring fascination with decapitation in European culture, this collection examines--through a variety of critical lenses--the recurring "roles/rolls" of severed human heads in the medieval and early modern imagination. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Beheading in literature.
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Beheading in literature. |
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Beheading.
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Beheading. |
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Social sciences.
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Social sciences. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Tracy, Larissa, 1974-
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Massey, Jeff.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tracy, Larissa. Heads Will Roll : Decapitation in the Medieval and Early Modern Imagination. Leiden : BRILL, ©2012 9789004211551 |
| ISBN |
9789004222281 (electronic book) |
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9004222286 (electronic book) |
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9004211551 |
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9789004211551 |
| Standard No. |
9786613470713 |
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