Wounds and wound repair in Medieval culture / edited by Larissa Tracy and Kelly DeVries.

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...

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Other Authors: Tracy, Larissa, 1974- (Editor), DeVries, Kelly, 1956- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden : Brill, [2015]
Series:Explorations in medieval culture ; v. 1.
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