Heads Will Roll
Subtitle: Decapitation in the Medieval and Early Modern Imagination
By: Edited by Larissa Tracy and Jeff Massey
Series: Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts
Publisher: Brill
Published: January 20, 2012
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9789004211551
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Beheading; Beheading in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Larissa Tracy and Jefff Massey; title: Non potest hoc corpus decollari : beheading and the impossible / Nicola Masciandaro; title: Execution and hagiography; title: "Like a Virgin" : the reheading of St. Edmund and monastic reform in late tenth-century England / Mark Faulkner; title: A crowning achievement : the royal execution and damnation of Eadric Streona / Jay Paul Gates; title: Decapitation, martyrdom, and late medieval execution practices in the book of Margery Kempe / Christine F. Cooper-Rompato; title: Continental narratives of punishment and othering; title: Talking heads in hell : Dante's use of severed heads in inferno / Dwayne C. Coleman; title: Severed silence : social boundaries and family honor in Boccaccio's "Tale of; title: Lisabetta" / Mary Leech; title: Contents the headless giant : the function of severed heads in the ahistorical (aventiurehafte) Dietrich epics / Tina Boyer; title: English romance and reality "to be a "fleschhewere" : beheading, butcher-knights, and blood-taboos in Octavian imperator / Renee Ward; title: The Werewolf at the head table : metatheatric "subtlety" in Arthur and Gorlagon / Jefff Massey; title: "So he smote of hir hede by myssefortune" : the real price of the beheading game in SGGK and glory / Larissa Tracy; title: Early modern practice and imagination "at the time of his death" : the contested narrative of Sir Walter Ralegh's beheading / Andrew Fleck; title: "Killing swine" and planting heads in shakespeare's macbeththomas herron; title: "Tucked beneath her arm" : culture, ideology, and fantasy in the curious legend of Anne Boleyn / Thea Cervone; title: Answering the call of the severed head" Asa / Simon Mittman; title: Bibliography; title: Index.