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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| Format: | Electrònic eBook |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2017.
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| Col·lecció: | The New Middle Ages
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| Accés en línia: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54439-1 |
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- 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.