UID:
almafu_9960118895602883
Format:
1 online resource (xviii, 406 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-78204-925-8
Content:
Skin is the parchment upon which identity is written; class, race, ethnicity, and gender are all legible upon the human surface. Removing skin tears away identity, and leaves a blank slate upon whichlaw, punishment, sanctity, or monstrosity can be inscribed; whether as an act of penal brutality, as a comic device, or as a sign of spiritual sacrifice, it leaves a lasting impression about the qualities and nature of humanity. Flaying often functioned as an imaginative resource for medieval and early modern artists and writers, even though it seems to have been rarely practiced in reality.From images of Saint Bartholomew holding his skin in his arms, to scenes of execution in Havelok the Dane, to laws that prescribed it as a punishment for treason, this volume explores the ideaand the reality of skin removal - flaying - in the Middle Ages. It interrogates the connection between reality and imagination in depictions of literal skin removal, rather than figurative or theoretical interpretations of flaying, and offers a multilayered view of medieval and early modern perceptions of flaying and its representations in European culture. Its two parts consider practice and representation, capturing the evolution of flaying as both an idea and a practice in the premodern world. Larissa Tracy is Associate Professor, Longwood University. Contributors: Frederika Bain, Peter Dent, Kelly DeVries, Valerie Gramling, Perry Neil Harrison, Jack Hartnell, Emily Leverett, Michael Livingston, Sherry C.M. Lindquist, Asa Mittman, Mary Rambaran-Olm, William Sayers, Christina Sciacca, Susan Small, Larissa Tracy, Renée Ward
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 May 2021).
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Machine generated contents note: FLAYING IN PRACTICE --
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Tools of the Puncture: Skin, Knife, Bone, Hand /
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A Tale of Venetian Skin: The Flaying of Marcantonio Bragadin /
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Flesh and Death in Early Modern Bedburg /
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Medievalism and the 'Flayed-Dane' Myth: English Perspectives between the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Centuries /
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Skin on Skin: Wearing Flayed Remains /
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REPRESENTATIONS OF FLAYING --
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Robed in Martyrdom: The Flaying of St Bartholomew in the Laudario of Sant'Agnese /
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Masculinist Devotion: Flaying and Flagellation in the Belles Heures /
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A Window for the Pain: Surface, Interiority and Christ's Flagellated Skin in Late Medieval Sculpture /
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'Flesche withowtyn hyde': The Removal and Transformation of Jesus' Skin in the English Cycle Passion Plays /
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No Skin in the Game: Flaying and Early Irish Law and Epic /
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Reading the Consumed: Flayed and Cannibalized Bodies in The Siege of Jerusalem and Richard Coer de Lyon /
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Losing Face: Flayed Beards and Gendered Power in Arthurian Literature /
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Face Off: Flaying and Identity in Medieval Romance /
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'Thou shalt have the better cloathe': Reading Second Skins in Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne /
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84384-452-4
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781782049258
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781782049258/type/BOOK
