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Caput Johannis in Disco - {Essay on a Man's Head} (Hardcover)
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Caput Johannis in Disco - {Essay on a Man's Head} (Hardcover)
Series: Visualising the Middle Ages, 8
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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 Johannesschussel 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 Johannesschussel as
artifact, phenomenon, phantasm and medium.
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