Heads Will Roll : Decapitation in the Medieval and Early Modern Imagination
Larissa. Tracy
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Leiden : : BRILL, , 2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (386 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Preface: Losing Your Head; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Introduction; Non potest hoc corpus decollari: Beheading and the Impossible; Execution and Hagiography; "Like a Virgin": The Reheading of St. Edmund and Monastic Reform in Late-Tenth-Century England; A Crowning Achievement: The Royal Execution and Damnation of Eadric Streona; Decapitation, Martyrdom, and Late Medieval Execution Practices in The Book of Margery Kempe; Continental Narratives of Punishment and Othering; Talking Heads in Hell: Dante's Use of Severed Heads in Inferno. - "At the time of his death": The Contested Narrative of Sir Walter Ralegh's Beheading"Killing swine" and planting heads in Shakespeare's Macbeth; "Tucked Beneath Her Arm": Culture, Ideology, and Fantasy in the Curious Legend of Anne Boleyn; ""Answering the Call of the Severed Head"; Bibliography; Index; Illustrations. - Severed Silence: Social Boundaries and Family Honor in Boccaccio's "Tale of Lisabetta"The Headless Giant: The Function of Severed Heads in the Ahistorical (Aventiurehafte) Dietrich Epics; English Romance and Reality; "To be a 'Fleschhewere' ": Beheading, Butcher Knights, and Blood-Taboos in Octavian Imperator; The Werewolf at the Head Table: Metatheatric "subtlety" in Arthur and Gorlagon; "So he smote of hir hede by myssefortune": The Real Price of the Beheading Game in SGGK and Malory; Early Modern Practice and Imagination. - Capitalizing upon the enduring fascination with decapitation in European culture, this collection examines--through a variety of critical lenses--the recurring ""roles/rolls"" of severed human heads in the medieval and early modern imagination.
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| ISBN | 9789004211551
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