| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 311 pages) |
| Series |
Intersections ; volume 28 |
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Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 28.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Outcome of a two-day conference held at the Academia Belgica and the Royal Dutch Institute at Rome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Head -- Social aspects -- Congresses
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Human body -- Social aspects -- Congresses
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Head -- Social aspects
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Human body -- Social aspects
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Baert, Barbara, editor.
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Traninger, Anita, editor.
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Santing, Catrien, editor.
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| LC no. |
2013019689 |
| ISBN |
9789004253551 |
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9004253556 |
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1299808220 |
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9781299808225 |
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9004253548 |
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9789004253544 |
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