A Grammar of the Corpse : : Necroepistemology in the Early Modern Mediterranean / / Elizabeth Spragins.
No matter when or where one starts telling the story of the battle of al-Qasr al-Kabir (August 4, 1578), the precipitating event for the formation of the Iberian Union, one always stumbles across dead bodies—rotting in the sun on abandoned battlefields, publicly displayed in marketplaces, exhumed an...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- A GRAMMAR OF THE CORPSE
- Introduction: Necroepistemology
- 1. Presence: Here Are the Dead
- 2. Absence: Disappearing the Royal Dead
- 3. Vitality: Wounded Narrators and the Living Dead
- 4. Assemblage: Recovering Diplomatic Power with Corpses
- 5. Erasure: Corpse Desecration for Narrative Control
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index