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Decapitation in the Medieval and Early Modern Imagination

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The decapitation motif recurs in nearly all medieval and early modern genres, from saints' lives and epics to comedies and romances, yet decollation is often little regarded, save as a marker of humanity (that is, as the moment mortality exits) or inhumanity (that is, as the moment the supernatural enters). However, as a seat of reason, wisdom, and even the soul, the head has long been afforded a special place in the body politic, even when separated from its body proper. Capitalizing upon the enduring fascination with decapitation in European culture, this collection examines--through a variety of critical lenses--the recurring "roles/rolls" of severed human heads in the medieval and early modern imagination.

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history, decapitation, medieval history, renaissance history, medieval, renaissance

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Table of Contents

Introduction / Larissa Tracy and Jefff Massey
Non potest hoc corpus decollari : beheading and the impossible / Nicola Masciandaro
Execution and hagiography
"Like a Virgin" : the reheading of St. Edmund and monastic reform in late tenth-century England / Mark Faulkner
A crowning achievement : the royal execution and damnation of Eadric Streona / Jay Paul Gates
Decapitation, martyrdom, and late medieval execution practices in the book of Margery Kempe / Christine F. Cooper-Rompato
Continental narratives of punishment and othering
Talking heads in hell : Dante's use of severed heads in inferno / Dwayne C. Coleman
Severed silence : social boundaries and family honor in Boccaccio's "Tale of
Lisabetta" / Mary Leech
Contents the headless giant : the function of severed heads in the ahistorical (aventiurehafte) Dietrich epics / Tina Boyer
English romance and reality "to be a "fleschhewere" : beheading, butcher-knights, and blood-taboos in Octavian imperator / Renee Ward
The Werewolf at the head table : metatheatric "subtlety" in Arthur and Gorlagon / Jefff Massey
"So he smote of hir hede by myssefortune" : the real price of the beheading game in SGGK and glory / Larissa Tracy
Early modern practice and imagination "at the time of his death" : the contested narrative of Sir Walter Ralegh's beheading / Andrew Fleck
"Killing swine" and planting heads in shakespeare's macbeththomas herron
"Tucked beneath her arm" : culture, ideology, and fantasy in the curious legend of Anne Boleyn / Thea Cervone
Answering the call of the severed head" Asa / Simon Mittman
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Series
Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts
Copyright Date
2012

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364.66
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HV8552 .H43 2012, HV8552.H43 2012

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Larissa Tracy
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Jeff Massey

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OL25109779M
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9789004211551
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2011045436
OCLC/WorldCat
761383841

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