- ホーム
- > 洋書
- > 英文書
- > History / World
Full Description
Do heads excite a desire to chop them off; a desire to decapitate and take a human life, as anthropologists have suggested? The contributors to this book are fascinated by 'disembodied heads', which are pursued in their many medieval and early modern disguises and representations, including the metaphorical. They challenge the question why in medieval and early modern cultures the head was usually considered the most important part of the body, a primacy only contested by the heart for religious reasons. Carefully mapping beliefs, mythologies and traditions concerning the head, the result is an attempt to establish a 'cultural anatomy' of the head, which is relevant for cultural historians, art historians and students of the philosophy, art and sciences of the premodern period.
Contributors include Barbara Baert, Esther Cohen, Mateusz Kapustka, Arjan R. de Koomen, Robert Mills, Marina Montesano, Scott B. Montgomery, Catrien Santing, Jetze Touber, and Bert Watteeuw.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
List of Illustrations
Introduction
CATRIEN SANTING AND BARBARA BAERT
Adam's Skull
MARINA MONTESANO
Talking Heads, or, A Tale of Two Clerics
ROBERT MILLS
The Meaning of the Head in High Medieval Culture
ESTHER COHEN
Securing the Sacred Head: Cephalophory and Relic Claims
SCOTT B. MONTGOMERY
The Johannesschüssel as Andachtsbild: The Gaze, The Medium and the Senses
BARBARA BAERT
Chasing the Caput. Head Images of John the Baptist in a Political Conflict
MATEUSZ KAPUSTKA
The Self-Portrait 'En Décapité': interpreting artistic Self-Insertion
ARJAN R. DE KOOMEN
Capita Selecta in Historia Sacra. Head Relics in Counter Reformation Rome
(1570CA.-1630CA.)
JETZE TOUBER
Framing the Face. Patterns of Presentation and Representation in Early Modern Dress and Portraiture
BERT WATTEEUW
And I bear your beautiful Face painted on my chest. The Longevity of the Heart as the primal Organ in the Renaissance
CATRIEN SANTING
Index Nominum
