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Bodily Extremities
Preoccupations with the Human Body in Early Modern European Culture
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ISBN-13:
9781351955072
Veröffentl:
2017
Seiten:
248
Autor:
Florike Egmond
eBook Typ:
PDF
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
2 - DRM Adobe
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
A collection of nine interdisciplinary essays looking at the social and cultural construction of the human body. Focusing on extreme, transgressive situations, practices, and their representations, the contributors tackle a wide range of issues about how the body was interpreted and understood in the early modern period.
Contents: Introduction, Florike Egmond and Robert Zwijnenberg; Skin and search for the interior: the representation of flaying in the art and anatomy of the Cinquecento, Daniela Bohde; Ogni pittore dipinge sé: on Leonardo da Vinci's Saint John the Baptist, Robert Zwijnenberg; The repulsive body: images of torture in 17th-century Naples, Harald Hendrix; Pain, punishment, dissection and infamy: a morphological investigation, Florike Egmond; Dissecting Quaresmeprenant: Rabelais' representation of the human body: a rhetorical approach, Paul Smith; Reading New World bodies, Peter Mason; The question of circumcision in the cryptojudaist communities in Spain and the relationship with medical and chirurgical practices, José Pardo Tomás; The expression of pain in the later Middle Ages: deliverance, acceptance and infamy, Esther Cohen; Index.
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