1st Edition
Bodily Extremities Preoccupations with the Human Body in Early Modern European Culture
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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A strong preoccupation with the human body - often manifested in startling ways - is a characteristic shared by early modern Europeans and their present-day counterparts. Whilst modern manifestations of this interest include body piercing, tattoos, plastic surgery and eating disorders, early modern preoccupations encompassed such diverse phenomena as monstrous births and physical deformity, body... Read more
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.
Biography
Florike Egmond, Robert Zwijnenberg
