"Was wir auch sehen oder scheinen, ist bloß ein Traum in einem Traum."
(Edgar Allan Poe)
“Traum ohne Ende” (“Dead of Night”) (1945)
Der Londoner Architekt Walter Craig (Mervyn Johns) fährt am Wochenende zu Eliot Foley (Roland Culver) und dessen Mutter (Mary Merrall), die ihn eingeladen haben, ihr Landhaus “Pilgrim’s Farm” umzubauen.
Dort begegnet Craig einigen Gästen: der attraktiven Joan Cortland (Googie Withers), dem Psychiater Dr. van Straaten (Frederick Valk), dem Rennfahrer Hugh Grainger (Anthony Baird) und dem Teenager Sally O’ Hara (Sally Ann Howes) Kurz darauf trifft - wie von dem sich stetig unwohler fühlenden Craig vorhergesagt - noch Graingers Gattin Joyce (Judy Kelly) ein.
Walter Craig eröffnet den Anwesenden, dass er sie alle aus einem ständig wiederkehrenden Traum kennt, an dessen Inhalt er sich zunächst nur vage zu erinnern vermag, der sich jedoch im Laufe des Abends zu einem Alptraum wandeln wird.
Während der Psychiater Craigs Angaben bezweifelt und seine düsteren Andeutungen in das Reich der Imagination verweist, sind die übrigen Gäste bereit, dem Architekten Glauben zu schenken, zumal alle von ihnen bereits selbst mit übersinnlichen Phänomenen konfrontiert waren. Jeder der Anwesenden erzählt die ihm widerfahrene Geschichte, und selbst der skeptische Psychiater weiß von einem solchen Fall zu berichten.
Nach dem plötzlichen Ausfall des Notstromaggregats wandelt sich Craigs Traum in den von ihm prophezeiten Alptraum, in dem der Architekt den Psychiater erwürgt und durch sämtliche Schauplätze der zuvor geschilderten Erzählungen zu fliehen versucht.
Walter Craig erwacht aus einem Alptraum. Ein Anruf von Eliot Foley bestellt ihn zu dem Landhaus “Pilgrim’s Farm” …
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Cedric Hardwicke and Sally Ann Howes in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Alberto Cavalcanti, 1947)
Cast: Derek Bond, Cedric Hardwicke, Bernard Miles, Sally Ann Howes, Alfred Drayton, Aubrey Woods, Stanley Holloway, Jill Balcon, Mary Merrall, Athene Seyler, Sybil Thorndike, Fay Compton, Cathleen Nesbitt, James Hayter. Screenplay: John Dighton, based on a novel by Charles Dickens. Cinematography: Gordon Dines. Art direction: Michael Relph. Film editing: Leslie Norman. Music: Lord Berners.
Forgettable and rather plodding version of the Dickens novel, kept alive only by some good actors doing their thing well.
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"Na solidão da noite" (dead of night) - torrent.
A presença de um diretor brasileiro nesse filme de terror de 1945 chamou a atenção da namorada. Alberto Cavalcanti nasceu no Brasil, mas logo foi pra Europa e fez sua carreira na direção por lá. Já consagrado, dirigiu alguns filmes por aqui. Nesse filme inglês, ele compartilha a direção com outros três, cada um encarregado de um dos quatro contos da história. Bora ver:
depois de ver: ótimo filme, bom clima. as quatro histórias são boas, mas o destaque, sem dúvida, fica pro conto do ventríloquo, dirigido por Cavalcanti.
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The Avengers: Series 6, Episode 26 - Homicide and Old Lace https://bit.ly/3nF60OF An episode written by Malcolm Hulke and Terrance Dicks, and then rewritten by Brian Clemens when he returned to the series. It was Clemens who inserted the framework narrative device – Mother visiting a pair of aged aunts and spinning them yarns about legendary feats of Avengers derring-do. The Great Great Britain Crime was … Read More »
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I was tagged for the following info by @icalledyoudumb and @alwaysdearie .
1. Favorite color: Periwinkle. But really any blue/purple. I don’t care much for red/purples.
2. Last song I listened to: https://youtu.be/ndJYRigKKT8
3. Favorite Musicians (including singers): Ian McCulloch (Echo and the Bunnymen ⤴️, Itzhak Perlman, Joe Walsh, Glenn Gould, Jonny Greenwood, Thom Yorke, Joey Ramone, Bing Crosby, Gene Krupa.
4. Last movie I watched: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037635/
5. Last show I watched: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1860659/
6. Sweet, Spicy, or Savory: Any. I just like things that have a strong taste.
7. Bubble Water, Tea, or Coffee: Coffee, as my header shows. Those are a bunch of cups of coffee that I had over time at Kelly’s Diner in Somerville, MA.
I tag (which I rarely do, but here goes) @gotankgo @justbeneath-thesurface2 @spinningininfinity @thisspaceof-mine @millerflintstone @retake-retoocs @mtman1 @randomberlinchick @thatsnotyourpurse @lisagotherwingson
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The most extravagant champagnes in the world
1841 Veuve Clicquot
Already renowned as one of the world’s superlative champagne brands, the discovery of a rare 1841 vintage, found in a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea in 2010, rendered one Veuve Clicquot variety even more covetable. 145 bottles of champagne were discovered in the wreck, 46 of which were Veuve Clicquot. Just one went on to sell for €30,000 (£26,700) at auction in 2012.
Armand de Brignac 30-litre Rosé Midas
The true divas among us know that pink is always the way to go – especially when considering the Armand de Brignac 30-Litre Rosé Midas, which is nothing if not spectacular. Made by the award-winning champagne Cattier château of Chigny-les-Roses, the true wow factor of this tipple comes from the vast 30-litre vessel in which it is housed. The largest bottle of Rosé champagne in the world at the time of its creation in 2013, the four-feet-tall Melchizedek has a total capacity of 40 regular-sized 750 ml bottles. And is a veritable bargain at £67,500.
2013 Taste of Diamonds
The world’s most expensive champagne, the 2013 Goût de Diamants (Taste of Diamonds) is priced at a mere £1.2 million a bottle. Made from Grand Cru grapes and with an exceptional flavour, it is, however, the bottle in which it is housed that sets this tipple apart from the crowd. Handcrafted by luxury designer Alexander Amos, the brand logo is made from 18-carat gold and accented by a 19-carat white diamond. Just the thing for a casual evening in.
Boërl & Kroff Collector’s Casket
Despite having only launched in 2007, Boërl & Kroff has already established itself as a name to know among industry experts. Growing its Pinot Noir grapes in just three small vineyards, collectively less than a hectare in size, its bottles are among the rarest in the world. Available only as Magnums (1.5 litres) or larger, this is clearly a champagne for connoisseurs. Case in point, the Boërl & Kroff collector’s casket of five magnums, which originally retailed at €43,250 (over £37,000).
Luxor Brut 24K Gold
Despite not wielding quite as hefty a price tag as some of the other list-makers, this champagne makes the cut on account of the fabulously unnecessary 24-carat gold flakes that sparkle among its bubbles. A mix of Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier and Chardonnay grapes, this glittering French confection would make even Marie Antoinette swoon.
1996 Dom Perignon Rose Gold Methuselah – $49,000
Consider that only 35 of this bubbly is ever sold, it is plated gold, and you are to receive the equivalent of six liters when you part with your $49,000. The price tag gets you distinct aromatic smoky accents, and the 1996 Dom Perignon Rose Gold Methuselah is also reported to be strong, radiant, and sharp with a firm finish.
1959 Dom Perignon – $42,350
In 1971, the Shah of Iran ordered several bottles of the first vintage of Dom Pérignon Rosé chilly served in Persepolis at the lavish festivities celebrating the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great.
In 2008 two of that legendary Dom Pérignon Rosé Vintage 1959 landed at an auction by Acker Merrall & Condit for US $84,700 in New York, which means the winner could indulge with one bottle and save one for investment.
1928 Krug – $21,200
An excellent summer in 1928 and consequently an ideal harvest situation at the end of September conspired to produce this legendary, distinctly rich fermented vintage. Fortunate circumstances ensured this 1928 collection stayed in the Krug cellars for decades. A reputation for being the late King George VI’s favourite.
Louis Roederer, Cristal Brut 1990 Millennium Cuvee Methuselah – $18,800
The shipwrecked Champagne earned its price by historical association and extreme rarity, but Cristal Brut 1990 Millennium Cuvee Methuselah scored it through sheer size, which is the equivalent of six litres or eight normal bottles in this case. There’s also the factor of rarity, as this particular Champagne is known to have only 2,000 similar bottles produced.
Shipwrecked Champagne – average of $14,181.81 per bottle
Some people literally walk into fortune, stumbling into gold coins or other precious artefacts. In the case of a team of divers out in the Baltic Sea in 2010, they accidentally dove into them. Shortly in the sea floor, they spotted a shipwreck with a box containing Champagne bottles some of which are 200-year-old vintage still intact and in good condition. The Champagnes were promptly sold at an auction.
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Rx Murder (1958) Director: Derek N. Twist. Writers: Joan Fleming, John W. Gossage and Derek N. Twist from Joan Fleming’s 1955 novel ‘The Deeds of Dr Deadcert’
American doctor Jethro Jones (Rick Jason) comes to a quiet English seaside resort to investigate the activities of its leading medical doctor, Henry Dysert (Marius Goring). He learns from Miss Bettyhill (Mary Merrall), the town-gossip, and others that 'the good doctor' might not be all that good, since each of his three wives (only one at a time), Louise (Vida Hope), Charlotte (Helen Shingler) and Stella (Sandu Scott), had mysterious and tragic deaths. The non-gossiping townsmen had regarded the three deaths, each of which left Dr Dysert in better financial shape, as unfortunate personal tragedies. Jason has only a short time to prove that Dysert was a multiple wife-killer, since Kitty Mortlock, Dr Dysert’s secretary (Lisa Gastoni) appears to be the next designated victim, and Jason has fallen in love with her himself. mariusgoring.com
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current reading list for 2019
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bolded = currently reading
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CURRENTLY READING
Erotism: Death and Sensuality by Georges Bataille
Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire
Violence and the Sacred by René Girard
Selected Prose of Heinrich von Kleist
TO READ
to resume
The Horror Reader edited by Ken Gilder
The Collected Works of Clarice Lispector
Là-Bas by J.K. Huysman
On Touching by Jacques Derrida
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection by Julia Kristeva
novels
The Border of Paradise by Esmé Weijun Wang
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (reread)
Justine by Lawrence Durrell
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (reread)
I’m Starved For You by Margaret Atwood
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
The Name of the Rose (reread) by Umberto Eco
The Letters of Mina Harker by Dodie Bellamy
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
Sunshine by Robin McKinley
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
Malina by Ingeborg Bachman
The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride
Enfermario by Gabriela Torres Olivares
Monsieur Venus by Rachilde
The Marquise de Sade by Rachilde
Hannibal
Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris
Monsters of our own Making by Marina Warner
“Monsters of Perversion: Jeffrey Dahmer and The Silence of the Lambs” by Diana Fuss
short stories
The Wilds by Julia Elliot
The Dark Dark by Samantha Hunt
Severance by Robert Olen Butler
poetry
Extracting the Stone of Madness by Alejandra Pizarnik
The Complete Poems by William Blake
Unholy Sonnets by Mark Jarman
collected works of Charles Baudelaire
collected works of Arthur Rimbaud
theatre
Faust by Goethe
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
nonfiction (history, biography, memoir)
Love's executioner and other tales of psychotherapy / Irvin D. Yalom.
Countess Dracula by Tony Thorne
The Bloody Countess by Valentine Penrose
Infamous Lady: The True Story of Countess Erzsebet Bathory by Kimberly L. Craft
Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill Schmutt
Afterlives: The Return of the Dead in the Middles Ages by Nancy Caciola
Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici
Blake by Peter Akroyd
The Trial of Gilles de Rais by Georges Bataille
The Marquis de Sade by Rachilde
Blake by Peter Akroyd
Dinner with a Cannibal: The Complete History of Mankind's Oldest Taboo by Carole A. Travis-Henikoff
The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
Emily Brontë by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson
Lives of the Necromancers by William Godwin
A History of the Heart by Ole M. Høystad
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
essays
When the Sick Rule the World by Dodie Bellamy
Academonia by Dodie Bellamy
The Body of Frankenstein's Monster by Cecil Helman
academia
Monsters of Our Own Making by Marina Warner
Monster Culture in the 21st Century: A Reader edited by by Marina Levina and Diem My Bui
Essays on the Art of Angela Carter: Flesh and the Mirror edited by Lorna Sage
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Donna Lee Brien
the gothic
Woman and Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth by Nina Auerbach
Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters by J. Halberstam
Perils of the Night: A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic by Eugenia C. Delamotte
Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic by Anne Williams
Body Gothic: Corporeal Transgression in Contemporary Literature and Horror Film by Xavier Aldana Reyes
On the Supernatural in Poetry by Ann Radcliffe
The Gothic Flame by Devendra P. Varma
Gothic Versus Romantic: A Reevaluation of the Gothic Novel by Robert D. Hume
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke
Over Her Dead Body by Elisabeth Bronfen
The Contested Castle: Gothic Novels and the Subversion of Domestic Ideology by Kate Ellis
Gothic Documents: A Sourcebook, 1700-1820 by E. Clery
Limits of Horror: Technology, Bodies, Gothic edited by Fred Botting
The History of Gothic Fiction by Markman Ellis
The Routledge Companion to the Gothic edited by Catherine Spooner and Emma McEvoy
Gothic and Gender edited by Donna Heiland
Romanticism and the Gothic Tradition by G.R. Thompson
Cryptomimesis : The Gothic and Jacques Derrida's Ghost Writing by Jodie Castricano
religion
The Incorruptible Flesh: Bodily Mutation and Mortification in Religion and Folklore by Piero Camporesi
Discerning Spirits: Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages by Nancy Caciola
“He Has a God in Him”: Human and Divine in the Modern Perception of Dionysus by Albert Henrichs
The Ordinary Business of Occultism by Gauri Viswanathan
The Body and Society. Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity by Peter Brown
cannibalism
Eat What You Kill: Or, a Strange and Gothic Tale of Cannibalism by Consent Eat What You Kill: Or, a Strange and Gothic Tale of Cannibalism by Consent Charles J. Reid Jr.
Consuming Passions: The Uses of Cannibalism in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Merrall Llewelyn Price
Cannibalism in High Medieval English Literature by Heather Blurton
Eating Their Words: Cannibalism and the Boundaries of Cultural Identity edited by Kristen Guest
crime
Savage Appetites by Rachel Monroe
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
theory/philosophy
Life Everlasting: the animal way of death by Bernd Heinrich
The Ambivalence of Scarcity and Other Essays by René Girard
Interviews with Hélène Cixous
Symposium by Plato
Phaedra by Plato
Becoming-Rhythm: A Rhizomatics of the Girl by Leisha Jones
The Abject of Desire: The Aestheticization of the Unaesthetic in Contemporary Literature and Culture edited by Konstanze Kutzbach, Monika Mueller
The Severed Head: Capital Visions by Julia Kristeva
perfume & alchemy
Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent by Jean-Claude Ellena
The Perfume Lover: A Personal Story of Scent by Denyse Beaulieu
Past Scents: Historical Perspectives on Smell by Jonathan Reinarz
Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent by Mandy Aftel
Das Parfum by Patrick Süskind
Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture by Catherine Maxwell
“The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Perfume”
medicine
Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery by Richard Hollingham
Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris
articles
“The Dread Gorgon” by Caroline Alexander
“Ruggiero’s Deceptions, Cherubino’s Distractions” by Mary Reynolds
“A Thing of Shreds and Patches” by J’Lyn Chapman
“Dissection” by Meehan Crist
unsorted
Dwellings of the Philosophers by Fulcanelli
Mysteries of the Cathedrals by Fulcanelli
Jean Cocteau, from ‘Orphée’
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio*
FINISHED
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Hannibal by Thomas Harris
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi (reread)
Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez (reread)
Painting Their Portraits in Winter: Stories by Myriam Gurba
The Sadeian Woman by Angela Carter
the collected poems of Emily Brontë
Fearful Symmetry by Northrop Frye
A Monster’s Notes by Laurie Sheck
Cain by José Saramago
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (reread)
Such Small Hands by Andres Barba
House of Incest by Anaïs Nin
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Hannibal Lecter and Philosophy: The Heart of the Matter edited by Joseph Westfall
The Body: An Essay by Jenny Boully
A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes
Carmilla by Sheridan le Fanu
Cabinet of Curiosities by Guillermo del Toro
John Donne’s Holy Sonnets
Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille
Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
Richard III by William Shakespeare
The Dead Seagull by George barker
Power Politics by Margaret Atwood
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Mary Merrall Killed - Death | Mary Merrall Dead - Passed Away
Mary Merrall Death - Dead, Obituary, Funeral, Cause Of Death, Passed Away: On December 10th, 2020, InsideEko Media learned about the death of Mary Merrall through social media publications made on Twitter. Click to read and leave tributes
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Non-Assigned Readings
Aristotle. De Anima (On the Soul). Translated by Hugh Lawson-Tancred. London: Penguin Books, 1986.
Cicero. The Nature of the Gods. Translated by P. G. Walsh. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Amundsen, Darrel W. Medicine, Society, and Faith in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Appleford, Amy. “The Good Death of Richard Whittington: Corpse and Corpration.” In The Ends of the Body: Identity and Community in Medieval Culture. Edited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Jill Ross, 86-109. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013.
Archambeau, Nicole. “Healing Options During the Plague: Survivor Stories from a Fourteenth-Century Canonization Inquest.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 85, no. 4 (Winter 2011): 531-559.
Avramescu, Catalin. An Intellectual History of Cannibalism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009.
Barber, Paul. Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.
Benton, John F. “Consciousness of Self and Perceptions of Individuality.” In Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century. Edited by Robert L. Benson, Giles Constable, and Carol D. Lanham, 263-295. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991.
Biller, Peter. “John of Naples, Quodlibets and Medieval Theological Concern with the Body.” In Medieval Theology and the Natural Body. Edited by Peter Biller and A.J. Minnis, 3-12. York: York Medieval Press, 1997.
Bynum, Caroline Walker. The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336: Expanded Edition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.
Caciola, Nancy. “Breath, Heart, Guts: the Body and Spirits in the Middle Ages.” In Communicating With the Spirits. Edited by Gabor Klaniczay and Eva Pocs, 21-39. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2005.
Dinzelbacher, Peter. Structures and Origins of the Twelfth-Century ‘Renaissance.’ Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 2017.
East, W. G. “This Body of Death: Abelard, Heloise and the Religious Life.” In Medieval Theology and the Natural Body. Edited by Peter Biller and A.J. Minnis, 43-59. York: York Medieval Press, 1997.
Hayes, Dawn Marle. “Body as Champion of Church Authority and Sacred Place: the Murder of Thomas Becket.” In Body and Sacred Place in Medieval Europe, 1100-1389: Interpreting the Case of Chartres Cathedral. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Kralik, Christine. “Death is Not the End: the Encounter of the Three Living and the Three Dead in the Berlin Hours of Mary of Burgundy and Maximilian I.” In The Ends of the Body: Identity and Community in Medieval Culture. Edited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Jill Ross, 61-85. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013.
Gothoni, Rene. “Religio and Superstitio Reconsidered.” Archive for the Psychology of Religion 21, no. 1 (1994): 37-46.
Gow, Andrew Colin. “’Sanguis Naturalis’ and ‘Sanc de Miracle’: Ancient Medicine, ‘Superstition; and the Metaphysics of Medieval Healing Miracles.” Sudhoffs Archiv 87, no. 2 (2003): 129-158.
Mikolajczyk, Renata. “Non Sunt Nisi Phantasiae et Imaginationes: a Medieval Attempt at Explaining Demons.” In Communicating With the Spirits. Edited by Gabor Klaniczay and Eva Pocs, 40-52. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2005.
Park, Katherine. “The Life of the Corpse: Division and Dissection in Late Medieval Europe.” The Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 50 (January 1995): 111-132.
Price, Merrall L. “Corpus Christi: the Eucharist and Late Medieval Cultural Identity.” In Consuming Passions: the Uses of Cannibalism in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Reynolds, Philip Lyndon. Food and the Body: Some Peculiar Questions in High Medieval Theology. Leiden: Brill, 1999.
Ritchey, Sara. “Affective Medicine: Later Medieval Healing Communities and the Feminization of Health Care Practices in the Thirteenth-Century Low Countries.” Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures 40, no. 2 (2014): 113-143.
Siraisi, Nancy G. Medieval & Early Renaissance Medicine: an Introduction to Knowledge and Practice. Chicago: the University of Chicago Press, 1990.
Sugg, Richard. Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: the History of Corpse Medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians. London: Routledge, 2011.
Westerhof, Danielle M. “Amputating the Traitor: Healing the Social Body in Public Executions for Treason in Late Medieval England.” In The Ends of the Body: Identity and Community in Medieval Culture. Edited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Jill Ross, 177-192. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013.
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