Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
by Frances Larson
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1783780568
- ISBN 13
- 9781783780563
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In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.
Over the centuries, heads have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls and filled our museums; they have been props for artists and specimens for laboratory scientists, trophies for soldiers and items of barter. Today, videos of decapitations circulate online and cryonicists promise us our heads may one day live on without our bodies. In this extraordinary book Frances Larson explores our centuries - old fascination with the severed head and finds a history that is as contentious, confounding and compelling as ever.
Over the centuries, heads have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls and filled our museums; they have been props for artists and specimens for laboratory scientists, trophies for soldiers and items of barter. Today, videos of decapitations circulate online and cryonicists promise us our heads may one day live on without our bodies. In this extraordinary book Frances Larson explores our centuries - old fascination with the severed head and finds a history that is as contentious, confounding and compelling as ever.
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- Bookseller
- DASHbooks (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- DASHbooks892
- Title
- Severed
- Author
- Frances Larson
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1783780568
- ISBN 13
- 9781783780563
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2015
- Keywords
- severed, frances larson, history of head lost and heads found, short stories, decapitation, william the conqueror,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Short Stories; Historical; Social History;
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