ID - 523549 TI - Caput Johannis in disco : essay on a man's head. AU - Baert, Barbara. AU - Schaudies, Irene PY - 2012 VL - 8 SN - 18740448 SN - 9789004224117 9004224114 PB - Leiden Brill DB - UniCat KW - heads [representations] KW - Art KW - onthoofding van Johannes de Doper KW - Religious studies KW - relics KW - John the Baptist KW - John, KW - Cult KW - Relics KW - Academic collection KW - 235.3 JOANNES BAPTISTA KW - 7.046.3 KW - Hagiografie--JOANNES BAPTISTA KW - Iconografie: religieuze voorstellingen KW - Giovanni Battista, KW - Ioann, KW - Īoann Predtech, KW - Ioannes, KW - Iōannēs, KW - Jean Baptiste, KW - Jean, KW - Jehan-Baptiste, KW - Johannes, KW - Juan, KW - Nabī Yaḥyá, KW - Yaḥyá ibn Zakarīyā, KW - Yūḥannā al-Maʻmadān, KW - Joam Baptista, KW - Jan Chrzciciel, KW - Cult. KW - Relics. KW - Christian special devotions KW - anno 500-1499 KW - 7.046.3 Iconografie: religieuze voorstellingen KW - Iohannes Baptista KW - Iconographie KW - John, - the Baptist, Saint - Cult KW - John, - the Baptist, Saint - Relics KW - John, - the Baptist, Saint UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:523549 AB - During the Middle Ages, the head of St John the Baptist was widely venerated. According to the biblical text, John was beheaded at the order of Herod’s stepdaughter, who is traditionally given the name Salome. His head was later found in Jerusalem. Legends concerning the discovery of this relic form the basis of an iconographic type in which the head of St John the Baptist is represented as an “object.” The phenomenon of the Johannesschüssel is the subject of this essay. Little is known about how exactly these objects functioned. How are we to understand this fascination with horror, death and decapitation? What phantasms does the artifact channel? The present study offers the unique key to the Johannesschüssel as artifact, phenomenon, phantasm and medium. ER -