"This study has essentially two focuses, two stories to tell. One story traces the secularization, theatricalization, and uncanny returns of suppressed religiou

Taking as its chronological starting-point the female body of late medieval devotional literature, the volume moves on to a consideration of the representation

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

Taking as its chronological starting-point the female body of late medieval devotional literature, the volume moves on to a consideration of the representation

This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in anthropology and