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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... mechanical , or other means , now known or hereafter invented , including photocopying and recording , or in any information storage or retrieval system , without permission in writing from the publishers . British Library Cataloguing ...
... mechanical reproduction.32 But , just as in the case of the aegis of Athene , which bore the head of the Medusa and was then copied by warriors for its protective power , so , here , a modern warrior returns and exhibits images of his ...
... MECHANICAL REPUBLIC The colder eye of science - the new science of the body - is associated with the ' discovery ' or , more properly , the rhetorical deployment during the seventeenth century , of a new language with which to describe ...
... mechanical contrivance ' may not have begun with Descartes , but the Cartesian formulation of 1637 , which suggested that the operations of the body have to be analysed in terms of the ' many different automata or moving machines the ...
... mechanical body appeared fundamentally different from the geographic body whose contours expressed a static landscape without dynamic interconnection . More than this , however , the body as a machine , as a clock , as an automaton ...
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 |