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Patricia Skinner

Living with Disfigurement in Early Medieval Europe

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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 ac… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-349-95986-0
  • EAN: 9781349959860
  • Produktnummer: 33447506
  • Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 292 S.
  • Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm x D1.5 cm 381 g
  • Auflage: 1st ed. 2017
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 381

Über den Autor


Patricia Skinner is Research Professor in Arts and Humanities at Swansea University, UK. She is the Director of the Effaced from History project, sponsored by the Wellcome Trust, and has previously published books on gender, medicine, and health, in addition to the social history of southern Italy.

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