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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... interior , together with a new means of studying that interior , which left its mark on all forms of cultural endeavour in the period . It is a central thesis of what follows that we cannot properly understand the familiar ( or less ...
... interior world of the human frame . For a brief period , which came to a close at the end of the seventeenth century , a view of knowledge flourished which was , paradoxically , both recognizably modern , and yet nevertheless entirely ...
... interior seems to have excited . Paradoxically , the very violence of dissective culture was a factor in the production of some of the more familiar structures of great beauty and vitality which we associate with the term ' Renaissance ...
... interior . But , as I hope will become evident , once the body has been partitioned and its interior dimensions laid open to scrutiny , the very categories ' male ' and ' female ' become fluid , even interchangeable . The attempt at ...
... interior of the modern body make its appearance ? The question asks us to focus on the nature of the conceptual tools with which we have come to understand our own bodies . Those tools are historically specific . To think of the body as ...
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 |