Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Writing and Reading about Medieval Disfigurement
2. The Face, Honor and 'Face'
3. Disfigurement, Authority and the Law
4. Stigma and Disfigurement: Putting on a Brave Face?
5. Defacing Women: the Gendering of Disfigurement
6. Ways of Seeing: Staring at and Representing Disfigurement
7. Paths to Rehabilitation? The Possibilities of Treatment
8. Conclusion
Appendix I
Appendix II
Bibliography
Index