Caput Johannis in disco
essay on a man's head
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Word Count
66,000 words, Guess
Page Count
264 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139789004224117
- ISBN-109004224114
- Library of Congress Control Number2012012873
- OCLC Control Number793494080
- Better World Books9789004224117
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- Open LibraryOL25323367M
Classifications
- DDC235/.2
- LCCBT691 .B3413 2012
- LCCBT691.B3413 2012
Description
During the Middle Ages, the head of St John the Baptist was widely venerated. According to the biblical text, John was beheaded at the order of Herod's stepdaughter, who is traditionally given the name Salome. His head was later found in Jerusalem. Legends concerning the discovery of this relic form the basis of an iconographic type in which the head of St John the Baptist is represented as an "object." The phenomenon of the Johannesschüssel is the subject of this essay. Little is known about how exactly these objects functioned. How are we to understand this fascination with horror, death and decapitation? What phantasms does the artifact channel? The present study offers the unique key to the Johannesschüssel as artifact, phenomenon, phantasm and medium.
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Series Statement
- Visualising the Middle Ages -- v. 8
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