The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance CultureAn 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 Renaissance art, but to the very foundation of the modern idea of knowledge. |
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... Medicine ; I. G. Murray , archivist for the Worshipful Company of Barbers ; D. T. Barriskill , Guildhall Library , London ; Julie Allum , Assistant Librarian for the Royal College of Physicians ; Leiden University Library ; The Henry E ...
... Medicine BIHM Bulletin of the Institute of the History of Medicine ELH ELR English Literary History English Literary Renaissance HLQ Huntington Library Quarterly JEGP Journal of English and Germanic Philology JHI Journal of the History ...
... medicine . But , just as in the case of dissection , there lurks in the word a constant potential for violence . Where did these cognate terms originate , and how did the modern , ostensibly neutral , scientific sense of ' dissection ...
... medicine , anatomization takes place so that , in lieu of a formerly complete ' body ' , a new ' body ' of knowledge and understand- ing can be created . As the physical body is fragmented , so the body of understanding is held to be ...
... medicine , as well as poetry , politics , the family , and the state were all potential subjects for division . The pattern of all these different forms of division was derived from the human body . It is for this reason that the body ...
Contents
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THE BODY IN THE THEATRE OF DESIRE | 39 |
INSIDE | 54 |
SACRED ANATOMY AND THE ORDER OF REPRESENTATION | 85 |
THE UNCANNY BODY | 141 |
DISSECTING PEOPLE | 183 |
ROYAL SCIENCE | 230 |
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The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture Jonathan Sawday Limited preview - 1995 |
The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture Jonathan Sawday Limited preview - 2013 |
The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture Jonathan Sawday No preview available - 1995 |