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  1. Disembodied heads in medieval and early modern culture
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Brill, Boston

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789004253544; 9789004253551
    Subjects: Gesellschaft; Head; Human body; Johannesschüssel; Kopf <Motiv>; Enthauptung <Motiv>; Kopfreliquiar
    Scope: xx, 311 p.
    Notes:

    Outcome of a two-day conference held at the Academia Belgica and the Royal Dutch Institute at Rome

    Includes bibliographical references and index
  2. Disembodied heads in medieval and early modern culture
    Contributor: Baert, Barbara (Publisher); Traninger, Anita (Publisher); Santing, Catrien (Publisher)
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden ; Boston

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Baert, Barbara (Publisher); Traninger, Anita (Publisher); Santing, Catrien (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1299808220; 9004253548; 9004253556; 9781299808225; 9789004253544; 9789004253551
    Series: Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 28
    Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; Head / Social aspects; Human body / Social aspects; Gesellschaft; Head; Human body; Kopfreliquiar; Enthauptung <Motiv>; Kopf <Motiv>; Johannesschüssel
    Scope: 1 online resource (xx, 311 pages)
    Notes:

    Outcome of a two-day conference held at the Academia Belgica and the Royal Dutch Institute at Rome

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    Adam's Skull / Marina Montesano -- Talking Heads, or, A Tale of Two Clerics / Robert Mills -- The Meaning of the Head in High Medieval Culture / Esther Cohen -- Securing the Sacred Head: Cephalophory and Relic Claims / Scott B. Montgomery -- The Johannesschussel as Andachtsbild: The Gaze, The Medium and The Senses / Barbara Baert -- Chasing the Caput. Head Images of John the Baptist in a Political Conflict / Mateusz Kapustka -- The Self-Portrait 'En Decapite': Interpreting Artistic Self-Insertion / Arjan R. de Koomen -- Capita Selecta in Historia Sacra. Head Relics in Counter Reformation Rome (1570CA.-1630CA.) / Jetze Touber -- Framing the Face. Patterns of Presentation and Representation in Early Modern Dress and Portraiture / Bert Watteeuw -- And I Bear Your Beautiful Face Painted on My Chest. The Longevity of the Heart as the Primal Organ in the Renaissance / Catrien Santing

    Discussing medieval and early modern 'disembodied heads' this collection questions the why and how of the primacy of the head in the bodily hierarchy during the premodern period. On the basis of beliefs, mythologies and traditions concerning the head, they come to an 'cultural anatomy' of the head