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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... demonstrating figure from Spigelius , De Humani Corporis Fabrica ( 1627 ) . 15 Dissected figure in a landscape from Charles Estienne , De Dissectione ( 1545 ) . 16 Brain dissection from Charles Estienne , De Dissectione ( 1545 ) ...
... demonstrating such desire , Marvell's poem also allows us access to a 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 ...
... demonstrations of arterial ' , ' venous ' , and ' nerval ' figures . These preparations revealed to an admiring public a new image of the human figure , an image which traced the form of the body , whilst its material - flesh , tissue ...
... demonstration of monarchical authority was now open to question . Menenius ' fable of the belly in Shakespeare's Coriolanus had become simply irrelevant in any literal sense . The soul's power within the body was no longer analogous to ...
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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 |
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 |