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  title info:
    title: Living with Disfigurement in Early Medieval Europe
  name:
    name part: Skinner, Patricia
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (X, 282 pages)
  abstract: This book is open access under a CC-BY 4.0 license. This book examines social and medical responses to the disfigured face in early medieval Europe, arguing that the study of head and facial injuries can offer a new contribution to the history of early medieval medicine and culture, as well as exploring the language of violence and social interactions. Despite the prevalence of warfare and conflict in early medieval society, and a veritable industry of medieval historians studying it, there has in fact been very little attention paid to the subject of head wounds and facial damage in the course of war and/or punitive justice. The impact of acquired disfigurement -for the individual, and for her or his family and community-is barely registered, and only recently has there been any attempt to explore the question of how damaged tissue and bone might be treated medically or surgically. In the wake of new work on disability and the emotions in the medieval period, this study documents how acquired disfigurement is recorded across different geographical and chronological contexts in the period. .
  table of contents: 1.Introduction: Writing and Reading about Medieval Disfigurement.2. The Face, Honor and 'Face'.3. Disfigurement, Authority and the Law.4. Stigma and Disfigurement: Putting on a Brave Face?.5. Defacing Women: the Gendering of Disfigurement.6. Ways of Seeing: Staring at and Representing Disfigurement.7. Paths to Rehabilitation? The Possibilities of Treatment.8. Conclusion -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Bibliography -- Index.
  note: by Patricia Skinner.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Open Access
  subject:
    geographic code: e------
  subject:
    topic: Literature
  subject:
    topic: History of Medieval Europe
  subject:
    topic: Medieval Literature
  subject:
    topic: Medieval Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Literature, Medieval
  subject:
    topic: Literature
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, Medieval
  subject:
    geographic: Europe
    topic: History-476-1492
  classification: 809.02
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: New Middle Ages
  identifier: 9781137544391
  identifier: https://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54439-1
  access condition: Open Access
  record info:
    record creation date: 161222
    record change date: 20210728135922.0
    record identifier: in00003992867