Roman bodies : antiquity to the eighteenth century / edited by Andrew Hopkins and Maria Wyke.

London : British School at Rome, 2005.

x, 265 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, map, plans ; 28 cm

The body of Rome: introduction / Maria Wyke, Andrew Hopkins -- Archetypally Roman? representing Seneca's ageing body / Catharine Edwards -- Circumcision, de-circumcision and self-image: Celsus's 'operations on the penis' / Ralph Jackson -- A Roman perspective on circumcision / Pierre Cordier -- 'In the foreskin of your flesh': the pure male body in late antiquity / Gillian Clark -- Headhunters in the Roman army / Nic Fields -- Execution in effigy: severed heads and decapitated statues in imperial Rome / Eric R. Varner -- Disabled bodies: the (mis)representations of the lame in antiquity and their reappearance in early Christian and Medieval art / Livio Pestilli -- Truth, perception, and the pagan body in the Roman martyr narratives / Kristina Sessa -- The paradoxical body of Saint Agnes / Lucy Grig -- The relic translations of Paschal I: transforming city and cult / Caroline Goodson -- Majesty and mortality: attitudes towards the corpse in papal funeral ceremonies / Minou Schraven -- A theatre of cruelty and forgiveness: dissection, institutions and the moral discourse of anatomy in sixteenth-century Rome / Andrea Carlino -- Not torments, but delights: Antonio Gallonio's Trattato de gli instrumenti di martirio of 1591 and its illustrations / Opher Mansour -- Ancient bodies and contested identities in the English college martyrdom cycle, Rome / Richard L. Williams -- Secrets of the heart: the role of saintly bodies in the medical discourse of counter-reformation Rome / Catrien Santing -- Contesting the sacred heart of Jesus in late eighteenth-century Rome / Jon L. Seydl.

Includes bibliographical references and index.