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Living with Disfigurement in Early Medieval Europe

This book is open access under a CC-BY 4.0 license. This book examines social and medical responses to the disfigured face in early medieval Europe, arguing that the study of head and facial injuries can offer a new contribution to the history of early medieval medicine and culture, as well as explo...

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Main Author: Skinner, Patricia (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Series:The New Middle Ages
Subjects:
Literature.
Europe > History—476-1492.
Literature, Medieval.
Medieval philosophy.
Medieval Literature.
Medieval Philosophy.
History of Medieval Europe.
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54439-1
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Table of Contents:
  • 1.Introduction: Writing and Reading about Medieval Disfigurement.2. The Face, Honor and 'Face'.3. Disfigurement, Authority and the Law.4. Stigma and Disfigurement: Putting on a Brave Face?.5. Defacing Women: the Gendering of Disfigurement.6. Ways of Seeing: Staring at and Representing Disfigurement.7. Paths to Rehabilitation? The Possibilities of Treatment.8. Conclusion
  • Appendix I
  • Appendix II
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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