Flaying in the Pre-Modern World : Practice and Representation.
The practice and the representation of flaying in the middle ages and after are considered in this provocative collection.
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Woodbridge :
Boydell & Brewer,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Rending and Reading the Flesh
- I Flaying in Practice
- 1 Tools of the Puncture: Skin, Knife, Bone, Hand
- 2 A Tale of Venetian Skin: The Flaying of Marcantonio Bragadin
- 3 Flesh and Death in Early Modern Bedburg
- 4 Medievalism and the 'Flayed-Dane' Myth: English Perspectives between the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- 5 Skin on Skin: Wearing Flayed Remains
- II representations of flaying
- 6 Robed in Martyrdom: The Flaying of St Bartholomew in the Laudario of Sant'Agnese
- 7 Masculinist Devotion: Flaying and Flagellation in the Belles Heures
- 8 A Window for the Pain: Surface, Interiority and Christ's Flagellated Skin in Late Medieval Sculpture
- 9 'Flesche withowtyn hyde': The Removal and Transformation of Jesus' Skin in the English Cycle Passion Plays
- 10 No Skin in the Game: Flaying and Early Irish Law and Epic
- 11 Reading the Consumed: Flayed and Cannibalized Bodies in The Siege of Jerusalem and Richard Coer de Lyon
- 12 Losing Face: Flayed Beards and Gendered Power in Arthurian Literature
- 13 Face Off: Flaying and Identity in Medieval Romance
- 14 'Thou shalt have the better cloathe': Reading Second Skins in Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne
- Epilogue: Anthropodermic Bibliopegy in the Early Modern Period
- Select Bibliography
- Index