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Visible prowess? Reading men's head and face wounds in early medieval Europe to 1000CE

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Wounds and Wound Repair in Medieval Culture, ed. L. Tracy and K. de Vries, Pages: 81 - 101

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DOI (Published version): 10.1163/9789004306455_005

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Although the historiography of medieval violence is now well-established, however, rather less attention has been paid to the fate of the wounded man in early medieval culture, particularly one suffering facial or head wounds of a disfiguring or disabling nature. Early medieval law codes, medical te...

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Published in: Wounds and Wound Repair in Medieval Culture, ed. L. Tracy and K. de Vries
Published: Leiden Brill 2015
Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK332959/
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