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Chapter 3 Visible Prowess?: Reading Men's Head and Face Wounds in Early Medieval Europe to 1000 CE

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The spectacle of the wounded body figured prominently in the Middle Ages, from images of Christ's wounds on the cross, to the ripped and torn bodies of tortured saints who miraculously heal through divine intervention, to graphic accounts of battlefield and tournament wounds-evidence of which s...

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Main Author: DeVries, Kelly (auth)
Other Authors: Tracy, Larissa (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Brill 2015
Series:Explorations in Medieval Culture
Subjects:
History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400
Literature & literary studies
Medieval history
Military history
History of medicine
medieval culture
middle ages
wound repair
wounded body
wounding
medieval literature
Early Middle Ages
Hanover
London
Monumenta Germaniae Historica
Skull
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