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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... complex ideological structure which stretched into every area of artistic and scientific endeavour in the early - modern period . The positive role of this new structure of knowledge was , undoubtedly , the establishment of a regime ...
... complex patterns of religious belief , to produce , eventu- ally , the ideal of a ' disinterested ' field of investigation . It was only with the triumph of ' science ' , in its modern sense , during the later seventeenth century , that ...
... complex articulation of reflective glances – a structure of representation - of which the shield of Perseus is emblematic . Modern medicine , for all its seeming ability to map and then to conquer the formerly hidden terrain of the ...
... complex and contradictory fusion of puritan theology and new science in which the body appears as a sinister instrument of pain and torture . The soul opens the dialogue : Soul O who shall from this Dungeon , raise A Soul inslav'd so ...
... complex design of the universe . This congruence equated scientific en- deavour with the triumphant discoveries of the explorers , cartographers , navigators , and early colonialists . And in the production of a new map of the body , a ...
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 |