The practice and the representation of flaying in the middle ages and after are considered in this provocative collection.

Introduction: Rending and Reading the Flesh - Larissa Tracy
Tools of the Puncture: Skin, Knife, Bone, Hand - Jack Hartnell
A Tale of Venetian Skin: The Flaying of Marcoantonio Bragadin - Kelly DeVries
Flesh and Death in Early Modern Bedburg - Susan Small
Medievalism and the 'Flayed-Dane' Myth: English Perspectives between the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Centuries - Mary R. Rambaran-Olm
Skin on Skin: Wearing Flayed Remains - Frederika Bain
Robed in Martyrdom: The Flaying of Saint Bartholomew in the Laudario of Sant'Agnese - Asa Simon Mittman
Robed in Martyrdom: The Flaying of Saint Bartholomew in the Laudario of Sant'Agnese - Christine Sciacca
Masculinist Devotion: Flaying and Flagellation in the Belles Heures - Sherry C.M. Lindquist
A Window for the Pain: Surface, Interiority and Christ's Flagellated Skin in Late Medieval Culture - Peter Dent
'Flesche withowtyn hyde': The Removal and Transformation of Jesus' Skin in the English Cycle Passion Plays - Valerie Gramling
No Skin in the Game: Flaying and Early Irish Law and Epic - William Sayers
Reading the Consumed: Flayed and Cannibalized Bodies in The Siege of Jerusalem and Richard Coer de Lyon - Emily Leverett
Losing Face: Flayed Beards and Gendered Power in Arthurian Literature - Michael Livingston
Face Off: Flaying and Identity in Medieval Romance - Larissa Tracy
Thou shalt have the better cloathe': Reading Second Skins in Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne - Renée Ward
Epilogue: Anthropodermic Bibliopegy in the Early Modern Period - Perry Neil Harrison
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