Essays

Losing Face: Heroic Discourse and Inscription in Flesh in Scéla Mucce Meic Dathó

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Essay on heroes, masculinity, and the body in the early Irish saga The Story of Mac Dathó’s Pig.

Published in The Ends of the Body: Identity and Community in Medieval Culture, ed. Akbari and Ross (University of Toronto Press, 2013).

Image: tapestry by Louis le Brocquy

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