Living with Disfigurement in Early Medieval Europe.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2016.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | The New Middle Ages Series
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Introduction: Writing and Reading About Medieval Disfigurement
- Congenital vs. Acquired Conditions
- Sources and Resources
- Law Codes
- Chronicles and Annals
- Hagiographic Texts
- Medical Texts
- Archaeological Evidence
- Iconography
- Approaches to Disfigurement
- Notes
- Chapter 2: The Face, Honor and "Face"
- What Is a Face?
- Surface and Depth
- Honor and "Face"
- Case Study: The Celtic World
- Modeling "Face" as an Element of Elite Male Authority
- Notes
- Chapter 3: Disfigurement, Authority and the Law
- Laws and Injuries
- Mutilation as Punishment - and Redemption?
- Case Study: Byzantine Disfigurements
- Popes, Saints and Mutilation
- Rhetoric to Reality-and Back
- What Happened Next: Disfigurement in the Courts
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Chapter 4: Stigma and Disfigurement: Putting on a Brave Face?
- Concealability: Can the Stigma Be Hidden?
- Course: Could the Stigmatizing Condition Be Changed Over Time?
- Disruptiveness: Does the Stigmatizing Condition Disturb Social Interactions?
- Aesthetics: Is the Condition Viewed as Repellent or Ugly?
- Origin: Can the Stigmatizing Condition Be Blamed on the Person Himself or Herself?
- Peril: Does the Stigma Represent Danger to Other Individuals or the Community?
- Messages in a Marked Face
- Notes
- Chapter 5: Defacing Women: The Gendering of Disfigurement
- Women "Protected"
- Women Defaced
- Defacing Women
- Women, Honor and Face
- Behind Closed Doors
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Chapter 6: Ways of Seeing: Staring at and Representing Disfigurement
- Case Study: Byzantine Staring
- Depicting Disfigurement: Iconographic Challenges.
- Seeing, Looking and Selfhood
- Notes
- Chapter 7: Paths to Rehabilitation? The Possibilities of Treatment
- Looking for Early Medieval Surgery: A Needle in a Haystack?.
- Healing in Action?
- Medical Language
- Case Study: Serious Head Injury in Battle
- Blinding, Disfigurement and Aftercare: Living with a Changed Face
- Notes
- Chapter 8: Conclusion: Taking the Long View on Medieval Disfigurement
- Notes
- Appendix 1: Narrative and Archaeological Evidence for Disfigurement
- Appendix 2: Disfigurement in Early Medieval Lawcodes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Primary Sources
- England/Wales/Ireland/Scotland
- France/Germany/Low Countries
- Italy
- Iberia/North Africa
- Byzantium, the Balkans and Eastern Europe
- Eastern Mediterranean
- Secondary Works
- Index.