Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Writing and Reading About Medieval Disfigurement -- Congenital vs. Acquired Conditions -- Sources and Resources -- Law Codes -- Chronicles and Annals -- Hagiographic Texts -- Medical Texts -- Archaeological Evidence -- Iconography -- Approaches to Disfigurement -- Notes -- Chapter 2: The Face, Honor and "Face" -- What Is a Face? -- Surface and Depth -- Honor and "Face" -- Case Study: The Celtic World -- Modeling "Face" as an Element of Elite Male Authority -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Disfigurement, Authority and the Law -- Laws and Injuries -- Mutilation as Punishment - and Redemption? -- Case Study: Byzantine Disfigurements -- Popes, Saints and Mutilation -- Rhetoric to Reality-and Back -- What Happened Next: Disfigurement in the Courts -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Stigma and Disfigurement: Putting on a Brave Face? -- Concealability: Can the Stigma Be Hidden? -- Course: Could the Stigmatizing Condition Be Changed Over Time? -- Disruptiveness: Does the Stigmatizing Condition Disturb Social Interactions? -- Aesthetics: Is the Condition Viewed as Repellent or Ugly? -- Origin: Can the Stigmatizing Condition Be Blamed on the Person Himself or Herself? -- Peril: Does the Stigma Represent Danger to Other Individuals or the Community? -- Messages in a Marked Face -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Defacing Women: The Gendering of Disfigurement -- Women "Protected" -- Women Defaced -- Defacing Women -- Women, Honor and Face -- Behind Closed Doors -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Ways of Seeing: Staring at and Representing Disfigurement -- Case Study: Byzantine Staring -- Depicting Disfigurement: Iconographic Challenges. -- Seeing, Looking and Selfhood -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Paths to Rehabilitation? The Possibilities of Treatment -- Looking for Early Medieval Surgery: A Needle in a Haystack?.

Healing in Action? -- Medical Language -- Case Study: Serious Head Injury in Battle -- Blinding, Disfigurement and Aftercare: Living with a Changed Face -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Conclusion: Taking the Long View on Medieval Disfigurement -- Notes -- Appendix 1: Narrative and Archaeological Evidence for Disfigurement -- Appendix 2: Disfigurement in Early Medieval Lawcodes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- England/Wales/Ireland/Scotland -- France/Germany/Low Countries -- Italy -- Iberia/North Africa -- Byzantium, the Balkans and Eastern Europe -- Eastern Mediterranean -- Secondary Works -- Index.

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