Tracy, Larissa; DeVries, Kelly; Woosnam-Savage, Robert C.; Geldof, M.R.; Skinner, Patricia; MacInnes, Iain A.; Kellett, Rachel E.; Banham, Debby; Voth, Christine; May, Timothy; Krug, Ilana; Livingston, Michael; Ferragud, Carmel; Eska, Charlene M.; Langum, Virginia; Ryan, Salvador; Olson, Vibeke; Gertsman, Elina; Easterling, Joshua S.; Spencer-Hall, Alicia; Classen, Albrecht; Johnson, Maire; Sayers, William; Atkinson, Stephen; Goodman, Barbara A.; Turner, Wendy J.

Wounds and Wound Repair in Medieval Culture (Explorations in Medieval Culture Volume 1)

Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2015. Hard Cover. Fine / No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. Item #2354640
ISBN: 9789004292796

An exceptional copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.

xxiii, 645 pp. Color illustrations. 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 survives in the archaeological record―and literary episodes of fatal (or not so fatal) wounds. This volume offers a comprehensive look at the complexity of wounding and wound repair in medieval literature and culture, bringing together essays from a wide range of sources and disciplines including arms and armaments, military history, medical history, literature, art history, hagiography, and archaeology across medieval and early modern Europe.

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