Flaying in the pre-modern world practice and representation
Skin is the parchment upon which identity is written; class, race, ethnicity, and gender are all legible upon the human surface. Removing skin tears away identity, and leaves a blank slate upon whichlaw, punishment, sanctity, or monstrosity can be inscribed; whether as an act of penal brutality, as...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
D.S. Brewer
2017.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- note: I. FLAYING IN PRACTICE
- 1. Tools of the Puncture: Skin, Knife, Bone, Hand / Jack Hartnell
- 2. A Tale of Venetian Skin: The Flaying of Marcantonio Bragadin / Kelly DeVries
- 3. Flesh and Death in Early Modern Bedburg / Susan Small
- 4. Medievalism and the 'Flayed-Dane' Myth: English Perspectives between the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Centuries / Mary Rambaran-Olm
- 5. Skin on Skin: Wearing Flayed Remains / Frederika Bain
- II. REPRESENTATIONS OF FLAYING
- 6. Robed in Martyrdom: The Flaying of St Bartholomew in the Laudario of Sant'Agnese / Christine Sciacca
- 7. Masculinist Devotion: Flaying and Flagellation in the Belles Heures / Sherry C. M. Lindquist
- 8. A Window for the Pain: Surface, Interiority and Christ's Flagellated Skin in Late Medieval Sculpture / Peter Dent
- 9. 'Flesche withowtyn hyde': The Removal and Transformation of Jesus' Skin in the English Cycle Passion Plays / Valerie Gramling
- 10. No Skin in the Game: Flaying and Early Irish Law and Epic / William Sayers
- 11. Reading the Consumed: Flayed and Cannibalized Bodies in The Siege of Jerusalem and Richard Coer de Lyon / Emily Leverett
- 12. Losing Face: Flayed Beards and Gendered Power in Arthurian Literature / Michael Livingston
- 13. Face Off: Flaying and Identity in Medieval Romance / Larissa Tracy
- 14. 'Thou shalt have the better cloathe': Reading Second Skins in Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne / Renee Ward.
