Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-xii

Acknowledgements

pp xiii-xiii

List of Contributors

pp xiv-xvii

List of Abbreviations

pp xviii-xviii

Introduction: Rending and Reading the Flesh

pp 1-18

I - FLAYING IN PRACTICE

pp 19-19

1 - Tools of the Puncture: Skin, Knife, Bone, Hand

pp 20-50

2 - A Tale of Venetian Skin: The Flaying of Marcantonio Bragadin

pp 51-70

3 - Flesh and Death in Early Modern Bedburg

pp 71-90

4 - Medievalism and the ‘Flayed-Dane’ Myth: English Perspectives between the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Centuries

pp 91-115

5 - Skin on Skin: Wearing Flayed Remains

pp 116-138

II - REPRESENTATIONS OF FLAYING

pp 139-140

6 - Robed in Martyrdom: The Flaying of St Bartholomew in the Laudario of Sant’Agnese

pp 141-172

7 - Masculinist Devotion: Flaying and Flagellation in the Belles Heures

pp 173-207

8 - A Window for the Pain: Surface, Interiority and Christ’s Flagellated Skin in Late Medieval Sculpture

pp 208-239

9 - ‘Flesche Withowtyn Hyde’: The Removal and Transformation of Jesus’ Skin in the English Cycle Passion Plays

pp 240-260

10 - No Skin in the Game: Flaying and Early Irish Law and Epic

pp 261-284

11 - Reading the Consumed: Flayed and Cannibalized Bodies in The Siege of Jerusalem and Richard Coer de Lyon

pp 285-307

12 - Losing Face: Flayed Beards and Gendered Power in Arthurian Literature

pp 308-321

13 - Face Off: Flaying and Identity in Medieval Romance

pp 322-348

14 - ‘Thou shalt have the better cloathe’: Reading Second Skins in Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne

pp 349-365

Epilogue: Anthropodermic Bibliopegy in the Early Modern Period

pp 366-383

Select Bibliography

pp 384-402

Index

pp 403-406