TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tracy,Larissa
AU  - Massey,Jeff
TI  - Heads will roll: decapitation in the medieval and early modern imagination 
T2  - Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts,
SN  - 9789004222281
AV  - HV8552 .H43 2012
U1  - 364.66 23
CY  - Leiden [The Netherlands], Boston
PB  - Brill.
KW  - Beheading
KW  - Beheading in literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material --; Introduction; Larissa Tracy and Jefff Massey --; Non potest hoc corpus decollari: Beheading and the Impossible; Nicola Masciandaro --; “Like a Virgin”: The Reheading of St. Edmund and Monastic Reform in Late-Tenth-Century England; Mark Faulkner --; A Crowning Achievement: The Royal Execution and Damnation of Eadric Streona; Jay Paul Gates --; Decapitation, Martyrdom, and Late Medieval Execution Practices in The Book of Margery Kempe; Christine F. Cooper-Rompato --; Talking Heads in Hell: Dante’s Use of Severed Heads in Inferno; Dwayne C. Coleman --; Severed Silence: Social Boundaries and Family Honor in Boccaccio’s “Tale of Lisabetta”; Mary E. Leech --; The Headless Giant: The Function of Severed Heads in the Ahistorical (Aventiurehafte) Dietrich Epics; Tina Boyer --; “To be a ‘Fleschhewere’ ”: Beheading, Butcher-Knights, and Blood Taboos in Octavian Imperator; Renée Ward --; The Werewolf at the Head Table: Metatheatric “Subtlety” in Arthur and Gorlagon; Jefff Massey --; “So he smote of hir hede by myssefortune”: The Real Price of the Beheading Game in SGGK and Malory; Larissa Tracy --; “At the time of his death”: The Contested Narrative of Sir Walter Ralegh’s Beheading; Andrew Fleck --; “Killing Swine” and planting heads in Shakespeare’s Macbeth; Thomas Herron --; “Tucked Beneath Her Arm”: Culture, Ideology, and Fantasy in the Curious Legend of Anne Boleyn; Thea Cervone --; “Answering the Call of the Severed Head”; Asa Simon Mittman --; Bibliography --; Index --; Illustrations; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - The decapitation motif recurs in nearly all medieval and early modern genres, from saints' lives and epics to comedies and romances, yet decollation is often little regarded, save as a marker of humanity (that is, as the moment mortality exits) or inhumanity (that is, as the moment the supernatural enters). However, as a seat of reason, wisdom, and even the soul, the head has long been afforded a special place in the body politic, even when separated from its body proper. Capitalizing upon the enduring fascination with decapitation in European culture, this collection examines--through a variety of critical lenses--the recurring \'roles/rolls\' of severed human heads in the medieval and early modern imagination. Contributors are Nicola Masciandaro, Mark Faulkner, Jay Paul Gates, Christine Cooper-Rompato, Dwayne Coleman, Mary Leech, Tina Boyer, Renée Ward, Andrew Fleck, Thomas Herron, Thea Cervone, and Asa Simon Mittman. Preface by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004222281
ER  -