Disembodied Heads in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

ISBN: 9789004253544 出版年：2013 页码：331 Brill

Discussing medieval and early modern 'disembodied heads' this collection questions the why and how of the primacy of the head in the bodily hierarchy during the premodern period. On the basis of beliefs, mythologies and traditions concerning the head, they come to an ‘cultural anatomy’ of the head.