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9780754607267

Bodily Extremities: Preoccupations with the Human Body in Early Modern European Culture

by Egmond,Florike
  • ISBN13:

    9780754607267

  • ISBN10:

    0754607267

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-04-28
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
vi
Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction
1(9)
Florike Egmond
Robert Zwijnenberg
Skin and the Search for the Interior: The Representation of Flaying in the Art and Anatomy of the Cinquecento
10(38)
Daniela Bohde
`Ogni pittore dipinge se' -- On Leonardo da Vinci's Saint John the Baptist
48(20)
Robert Zwijnenberg
The Repulsive Body: Images of Torture in Seventeenth-Century Naples
68(24)
Harald Hendrix
Execution, Dissection, Pain and Infamy -- A Morphological Investigation
92(37)
Florike Egmond
Dissecting Quaresmeprenant -- Rabelais' Representation of the Human Body: A Rhetorical Approach
129(19)
Paul J. Smith
Reading New World Bodies
148(20)
Peter Mason
Physicians' and Inquisitors' Stories? Circumcision and Crypto-Judaism in Sixteenth--Eighteenth-Century Spain
168(27)
Jose Pardo Tomas
The Expression of Pain in the Later Middle Ages: Deliverance, Acceptance and Infamy
195(26)
Esther Cohen
Index 221

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