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

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 meta...

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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Intersections 28.
Physical Description:1 online resource (331 p.)
Notes:Outcome of a two-day conference held at the Academia Belgica and the Royal Dutch Institute at Rome.
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