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. Though the dazzling displays of the exterior of the body in Renaissance literature and art have long been a subject of enquiry, The Body Emblazoned considers the interior of the body, and what it meant to men and women in early modern culture. A richly interdisciplinary work, The Body Emblazoned re-assesses modern understanding of the literature and culture of the Renaissance and its conceptualization of the body within the domains of the medical and moral, the cultural and political. |
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... Surgeons in London . The Royal College of Surgeons is derived from the unified Barber - Surgeons Company . This company had been founded in 1540 and , together with the College of Physicians , had operated as one of the regulating ...
... Surgeons in London . The Royal College of Surgeons is derived from the unified Barber - Surgeons Company . This company had been founded in 1540 and , together with the College of Physicians , had operated as one of the regulating ...
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... surgeon bribing an undertaker . Of course , such cavalier treatment of a dying man's wishes would no longer be tolerated . Or would it ? In 1994 a scandalous story began to circulate in the Danish press . At the University of Copenhagen ...
... surgeon bribing an undertaker . Of course , such cavalier treatment of a dying man's wishes would no longer be tolerated . Or would it ? In 1994 a scandalous story began to circulate in the Danish press . At the University of Copenhagen ...
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... surgeon Richard Selzer has termed them ) are journeys of exploration which encounter bodies other than our own . They are passages into THE body , but not MY body . But is MY body any different from any other body ? Below the skin ...
... surgeon Richard Selzer has termed them ) are journeys of exploration which encounter bodies other than our own . They are passages into THE body , but not MY body . But is MY body any different from any other body ? Below the skin ...
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... surgeon , lurks within each individual . But in the image of the Medusa is the archetypal expression of body - fear , and one that appears to be linked to our ideas about gender rather than a common identity which transcends sexual ...
... surgeon , lurks within each individual . But in the image of the Medusa is the archetypal expression of body - fear , and one that appears to be linked to our ideas about gender rather than a common identity which transcends sexual ...
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... surgeons or physicians are careful to shield , wherever possible , any possible sight of our own interiors when we ... surgeon ( even within the harshly empirical structures of western medicine ) therefore enjoys a rare cultural status ...
... surgeons or physicians are careful to shield , wherever possible , any possible sight of our own interiors when we ... surgeon ( even within the harshly empirical structures of western medicine ) therefore enjoys a rare cultural status ...
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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