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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... corpse . And such a confrontation encountered one of the oldest taboos known within human culture . It meant violating that special domain which belongs to the dead . We still acknow- ledge this taboo , even when we claim to be ...
... corpses in the University's prestigious laboratories of forensic medicine to interested ( and paying ) members of the public had been flourishing since the early 1980s . Sensation - seekers ( each paying fifty kroner ) had been ushered ...
... corpse , was designed to achieve . A sixteenth- century sentencing formula from Germany , for example , announced that the body ' shall remain on the gallows so that it shall be given over to the birds of the air and taken away from the ...
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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 |
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The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture Jonathan Sawday No preview available - 1995 |