The body of Rome: Introduction (Maria Wyke and Andrew Hopkins); Empire: Care, Modification and Abuse 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 of the Roman army (Nic Fields); Execution in effigy: Severed heads and decapitated statues in imperial Rome (Eric R Varner) Church: Disablement, Transformation and Veneration Disabled bodies: The (mis)representation 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 narrarives (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) Religion and Science: Dissection, Torture and Fragmentation 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 de 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).
