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245 00 a| Heads will roll :b| decapitation in the medieval and early modern imagination /c| edited by Larissa Tracy and Jeff Massey.;

300 a| xviii, 352 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :b| illustrations (chiefly color) ;c| 25 cm.;

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490 1 a| Medieval and renaissance authors and texts ;v| 7;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| Introduction / Larissa Tracy and Jefff Massey -- Non potest hoc corpus decollari : beheading and the impossible / Nicola Masciandaro -- Execution and hagiography -- "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 -- Continental narratives of punishment and othering -- 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 Leech -- Contents the headless giant : the function of severed heads in the ahistorical (aventiurehafte) Dietrich epics / Tina Boyer -- English romance and reality "to be a "fleschhewere" : beheading, butcher-knights, and blood-taboos in Octavian imperator / Renee 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 glory / Larissa Tracy -- Early modern practice and imagination "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 macbeththomas 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.;

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Heads will roll : decapitation in the medieval and early modern imagination / edited by Larissa Tracy and Jeff Massey.

Other author	Tracy, Larissa, 1974-
Other author	Massey, Jeff.
Format	Book
Publication Info	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2012.
Description	xviii, 352 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
Subjects	Beheading. Beheading in literature.

Series	Medieval and renaissance authors and texts ; 7 Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts ; v. 7. ^A1046083
Contents	Introduction / Larissa Tracy and Jefff Massey -- Non potest hoc corpus decollari : beheading and the impossible / Nicola Masciandaro -- Execution and hagiography -- "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 -- Continental narratives of punishment and othering -- 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 Leech -- Contents the headless giant : the function of severed heads in the ahistorical (aventiurehafte) Dietrich epics / Tina Boyer -- English romance and reality "to be a "fleschhewere" : beheading, butcher-knights, and blood-taboos in Octavian imperator / Renee 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 glory / Larissa Tracy -- Early modern practice and imagination "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 macbeththomas 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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2011045436
ISBN	9789004211551 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN	9004211551 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN	9789004222281 (ebk.)
ISBN	9004222286 (ebk.)

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