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Disembodied Heads in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

Disembodied Heads in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

by Barbara BaertCatrien Santing and Anita Traninger
Hardback
Publication Date: 18/07/2013

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Do heads excite a desire to chop them off; a desire to decapitate and take a human life, as anthropologists have suggested? The contributors to this book are fascinated by 'disembodied heads', which are pursued in their many medieval and early modern disguises and representations, including the metaphorical. They challenge the question why in medieval and early modern cultures the head was usually considered the most important part of the body, a primacy only contested by the heart for religious reasons. Carefully mapping beliefs, mythologies and traditions concerning the head, the result is an attempt to establish a 'cultural anatomy' of the head, which is relevant for cultural historians, art historians and students of the philosophy, art and sciences of the premodern period.

Contributors include Barbara Baert, Esther Cohen, Mateusz Kapustka, Arjan R. de Koomen, Robert Mills, Marina Montesano, Scott B. Montgomery, Catrien Santing, Jetze Touber, and Bert Watteeuw.
ISBN:
9789004253544
9789004253544
Category:
Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
18-07-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Brill
Country of origin:
Netherlands
Pages:
312
Dimensions (mm):
235x155mm
Weight:
0.64kg

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