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The Body Emblazoned Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture
By Jonathan Sawday
Copyright 1995
372 Pages
by
Routledge
372 Pages
by
Routledge
372 Pages
by
Routledge
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An outstanding piece of scholarship and a fascinating read, The Body Emblazoned is a compelling study of the culture of dissection the English Renaissance, which informed intellectual enquiry in Europe for nearly two hundred years. In this outstanding work, Jonathan Sawday explores the dark, morbid eroticism of the Renaissance anatomy theatre, and relates it to not only the great monuments of... Read more
List of figures, Preface and acknowledgements, A note on spelling and citation, 1 THE AUTOPTIC VISION, 2 THE RENAISSANCE BODY: FROM COLONIZATION TO INVENTION, 3 THE BODY IN THE THEATRE OF DESIRE, 4 EXECUTION, ANATOMY, AND INFAMY: INSIDE THE RENAISSANCE ANATOMY THEATRE, 5 SACRED ANATOMY AND THE ORDER OF REPRESENTATION, 6 THE UNCANNY BODY, 7 THE REALM OF AN ATOM I A: DISSECTING PEOPLE, 8 'ROYAL SCIENCE', Notes, Index
Biography
Jonathan Sawday
'At the end of the 20th century, when cyberspace and AIDS have forced us to ask questions about the future of our physical selves, it's instructive to see where we've come from. It may help us see where we're going.' - Wired
'This book is a tour de force that promises to shape the questions scholars will ask about the representation of the early modern body for years to come.' - - Medievalia Et Humanistica
'Sawday's disturbing, revelatory work is a triumph.' - The Independent
' ... this is a compendiously ambitious and provocative work.' - Times Literary Supplement
'an absorbing and ambitious book' - - The Sunday Times
