Living with disfigurement in early medieval Europe / Patricia Skinner.

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

x, 282 pages ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (245-271) and index.

Introduction: writing and reading about medieval disfigurement -- The face, honor and "face" -- Disfigurement, authority and the law -- Stigma and disfigurement: putting on a brave face? -- Defacing women: the gendering of disfigurement -- Ways of seeing: staring at and representing disfigurement -- Paths to rehabilitation? The possibilities of treatment -- Conclusion: taking the long view on medieval disfigurement.