Wording the Wound Man

Little is known about the image of the Wound Man, a graphic drawing of a violently wounded figure repeated across a series of European surgical treatises from 1400 onwards. Focusing on the only known English example, preserved in the back of a late fifteenth-century medical miscellany now in the Wel...

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Main Author: Jack Hartnell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Yale University 2017-06-01
Series:British Art Studies
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Online Access:http://britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-6/wound-man