Wounds and Wound Repair in Medieval Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wounds and Wound Repair in Medieval Culture write by . This book was released on 2015-10-05. Wounds and Wound Repair in Medieval Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The spectacle of the wounded body figured prominently in the Middle Ages, from images of Christ’s wounds on the cross, to the ripped and torn bodies of tortured saints who miraculously heal through divine intervention, to graphic accounts of battlefield and tournament wounds—evidence of which survives in the archaeological record—and literary episodes of fatal (or not so fatal) wounds. This volume offers a comprehensive look at the complexity of wounding and wound repair in medieval literature and culture, bringing together essays from a wide range of sources and disciplines including arms and armaments, military history, medical history, literature, art history, hagiography, and archaeology across medieval and early modern Europe. Contributors are Stephen Atkinson, Debby Banham, Albrecht Classen, Joshua Easterling, Charlene M. Eska, Carmel Ferragud, M.R. Geldof, Elina Gertsman, Barbara A. Goodman, Máire Johnson, Rachel E. Kellett, Ilana Krug, Virginia Langum, Michael Livingston, Iain A. MacInnes, Timothy May, Vibeke Olson, Salvador Ryan, William Sayers, Patricia Skinner, Alicia Spencer-Hall, Wendy J. Turner, Christine Voth, and Robert C. Woosnam-Savage.
Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages
Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages write by Larissa Tracy. This book was released on 2013. Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Essays exploring medieval castration, as reflected in archaeology, law, historical record, and literary motifs. Castration and castrati have always been facets of western culture, from myth and legend to law and theology, from eunuchs guarding harems to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century castrati singers. Metaphoric castration pervadesa number of medieval literary genres, particularly the Old French fabliaux - exchanges of power predicated upon the exchange or absence of sexual desire signified by genitalia - but the plain, literal act of castration and its implications are often overlooked. This collection explores this often taboo subject and its implications for cultural mores and custom in Western Europe, seeking to demystify and demythologize castration. Its subjects includearchaeological studies of eunuchs; historical accounts of castration in trials of combat; the mutilation of political rivals in medieval Wales; Anglo-Saxon and Frisian legal and literary examples of castration as punishment; castration as comedy in the Old French fabliaux; the prohibition against genital mutilation in hagiography; and early-modern anxieties about punitive castration enacted on the Elizabethan stage. The introduction reflects on these topics in the context of arguably the most well-known victim of castration in the middle ages, Abelard. LARISSA TRACY is Associate Professor of Medieval Literature at Longwood University. Contributors: Larissa Tracy, Kathryn Reusch, Shaun Tougher, Jack Collins, Rolf H. Bremmer Jr, Jay Paul Gates, Charlene M. Eska, Mary A. Valante, Anthony Adams, Mary E. Leech, Jed Chandler, Ellen Lorraine Friedrich, Robert L.A. Clark, Karin Sellberg, LenaWånggren
A Brief History of Wound Healing
A Brief History of Wound Healing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Brief History of Wound Healing write by . This book was released on 1998. A Brief History of Wound Healing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature
Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature write by Larissa Tracy. This book was released on 2015. Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A new look at the way in which medieval European literature depicts torture and brutality.
Flaying in the Pre-modern World
Flaying in the Pre-modern World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Flaying in the Pre-modern World write by Larissa Tracy. This book was released on 2017. Flaying in the Pre-modern World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The practice and the representation of flaying in the middle ages and after are considered in this provocative collection.
