Chapter 3 Visible Prowess?: Reading Men's Head and Face Wounds in Early Medieval Europe to 1000 CE
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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Brill
2015
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| Series: | Explorations in Medieval Culture
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