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Philosophical anthropology --- Anthropologie dans la litérature --- Anthropology in literature --- Antropologie in de literatuur --- Beheadings --- Décapitations --- Onthoofdingen --- Head --- Beheading in literature. --- Beheading --- Beheading in art. --- Beheading in motion pictures --- Tête --- Décapitation dans la littérature --- Décapitation --- Décapitation dans l'art --- Décapitation au cinéma --- Symbolic aspects --- History. --- Aspect symbolique. --- Histoire --- Tête --- Décapitation dans la littérature --- Décapitation --- Décapitation dans l'art --- Décapitation au cinéma --- Symbolic aspects.

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Do heads excite a desire to chop them off; a desire to decapitate and take a human life, as anthropologists have suggested? The contributors to this book are fascinated by ‘disembodied heads’, which are pursued in their many medieval and early modern disguises and representations, including the metaphorical. They challenge the question why in medieval and early modern cultures the head was usually considered the most important part of the body, a primacy only contested by the heart for religious reasons. Carefully mapping beliefs, mythologies and traditions concerning the head, the result is an attempt to establish a ‘cultural anatomy’ of the head, which is relevant for cultural historians, art historians and students of the philosophy, art and sciences of the premodern period. Contributors include Barbara Baert, Esther Cohen, Mateusz Kapustka, Arjan R. de Koomen, Robert Mills, Marina Montesano, Scott B. Montgomery, Catrien Santing, Jetze Touber, and Bert Watteeuw.

Head --- Human body --- Social aspects --- Figure drawing --- Skull --- Beheading --- Medicine in Art --- Tête --- Corps humain --- Décapitation --- Médecine dans l'art --- Social aspects. --- History --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- History of civilization --- Head - Social aspects - Congresses --- Human body - Social aspects - Congresses --- Tête --- Décapitation

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Pok-ta-pok (Indian game) --- Beheading --- Nahuas --- Pok-ta-pok (Jeu indien d'Amérique) --- Décapitation --- Nahua (Indiens) --- History --- Games --- Rites and ceremonies --- Histoire --- Jeux --- Rites et cérémonies --- Games. --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Pok-ta-pok (Jeu indien d'Amérique) --- Décapitation --- Rites et cérémonies