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 surviv...

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Main Authors:	DeVries, Kelly, Tracy, Larissa
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Brill 2021
Subjects:	medieval culture middle ages wound repair wounded body wounding medieval literature Early Middle Ages Hanover London Monumenta Germaniae Historica Skull thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art thema EDItEUR::6 Style qualifiers::6M Styles (M)::6MB Medieval style thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3K CE period up to c 1500 thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHW Military history thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine
Online Access:	1000147
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