Issue 12: Picturing bodies in medieval and early modern Europe

Winter 2025-6

Edited by Andrew Murray and Margit THØFNER

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0. Picturing bodies in medieval and early modern Europe: ‘What, then, is everyone writing about?’

Andrew Murray and Margit THØFNER

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1. Raptorness: the ‘bodies’ of humans becoming-with birds of prey in the art and archaeology of early medieval England

Robert wallis

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2. Unbounded: The multiplicity of bodies and beings in Viking worlds

Brad Marshall, Emma L. Thompson, Alexander Wilson and Marianne Hem Eriksen

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3. Veiling: Mourning between body and image

Andrew Murray

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4. Conjoined: Dürer and Leonardo

M.A.Katritzky

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5. Fat? The contested femininity of Marguerite de Valois in Rubens’s Medici Cycle

Scarlett Butler

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6. Orifices: Surgery and sodomy in early modern Rome

Silvia de Renzi

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7. Organ: fish and other bodies in an early modern Lutheran convent church

Margit THØFNER

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