Disembodied Heads in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

Disembodied Heads in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Author: Barbara Baert
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2013-07-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004253556

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.

Guy of Warwick and Other Chapbook Romances

Guy of Warwick and Other Chapbook Romances
Author: John Simons
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1998
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780859894456

Chapbooks formed the staple reading matter of ordinary people during the 18th and much of the 19th centuries. These chapbooks derive from romances which were current in the Middle Ages or the Renaissance.