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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... metaphoric sense of the term leads us to an historical field rich in cognate meanings . Thus , a dissection might denote not the delicate separation of constituent structures , but a more violent ' reduction ' into parts : a brutal ...
... metaphor , similitude , and comparison.19 It is probably not an over - statement to say that this vista of similarity lay at the very heart of every intellectual endeavour of early - modern culture , informing art , architecture ...
... metaphor , but it was also to appropriate the body in the service of colonial expansion . ' The whole world ' , Donne's sermon continued , ' all Mankinde must take care , that all places be emprov'd , as farre as may be to the best ...
... metaphors betrays a profound level of insecurity . No one individual could hope to encompass such knowledge . Despite the optimism of the internal voyagers , some were beginning to sense that the body's interior had become too vast ...
... metaphors with which to describe systems of government which were held to be both organic ( and hence natural ) and hierarchical . No longer was this the case . The easy familiarity with which early - modern political commentators could ...
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 |