Tracy Flaying in the Pre-Modern World

Practice and Representation
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78204-925-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 424 Seiten

The practice and the representation of flaying in the middle ages and after are considered in this provocative collection.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tracy, Larissa

Weitere Mitwirkende

Mittman, Asa

Sciacca, Christine

Leverett, Emily

Bain, Frederika

Hartnell, Jack

DeVries, Kelly

Tracy, Larissa

Rambaran-Olm, Mary R.

Livingston, Michael

Harrison, Perry Neil

Dent, Peter

Ward, Renée

Lindquist, Sherry C.M.

Small, Susan

Gramling, Valerie

Sayers, William

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Rending and Reading the Flesh - Larissa Tracy
Tools of the Puncture: Skin, Knife, Bone, Hand - Jack Hartnell
A Tale of Venetian Skin: The Flaying of Marcoantonio Bragadin - Kelly DeVries
Flesh and Death in Early Modern Bedburg - Susan Small
Medievalism and the 'Flayed-Dane' Myth: English Perspectives between the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Centuries - Mary R. Rambaran-Olm
Skin on Skin: Wearing Flayed Remains - Frederika Bain
Robed in Martyrdom: The Flaying of Saint Bartholomew in the Laudario of Sant'Agnese - Asa Simon Mittman
Robed in Martyrdom: The Flaying of Saint Bartholomew in the Laudario of Sant'Agnese - Christine Sciacca
Masculinist Devotion: Flaying and Flagellation in the Belles Heures - Sherry C.M. Lindquist
A Window for the Pain: Surface, Interiority and Christ's Flagellated Skin in Late Medieval Culture - Peter Dent
'Flesche withowtyn hyde': The Removal and Transformation of Jesus' Skin in the English Cycle Passion Plays - Valerie Gramling
No Skin in the Game: Flaying and Early Irish Law and Epic - William Sayers
Reading the Consumed: Flayed and Cannibalized Bodies in The Siege of Jerusalem and Richard Coer de Lyon - Emily Leverett
Losing Face: Flayed Beards and Gendered Power in Arthurian Literature - Michael Livingston
Face Off: Flaying and Identity in Medieval Romance - Larissa Tracy
Thou shalt have the better cloathe': Reading Second Skins in Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne - Renée Ward
Epilogue: Anthropodermic Bibliopegy in the Early Modern Period - Perry Neil Harrison
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Über Autor(innen)

Tracy Larissa:
Larissa Tracy is Professor of Medieval Literature at Longwood University. She has published extensively on medieval violence and its intersections with literature, law, medicine, and social identity.Tracy Larissa:
Larissa Tracy is Professor of Medieval Literature at Longwood University. She has published extensively on medieval violence and its intersections with literature, law, medicine, and social identity.