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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... poets and artists of that period , saw their endeavours as complementary . In their individual spheres , poets , philosophers , scientists , architects , and artists had begun the task of making new sense of the interior world of the ...
... poetic texts , anatomical works , the historical record of the rituals of investigation , visual representation of the body , and philosophical ac- counts of the formation of modern frameworks for understanding not only the body , but ...
... poetic depictions in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries of the relationship between body and soul . If we remain with Donne for a moment , and turn to ' The Extasie ' - that exercise in Platonic dualism - we observe the body ...
... poetic theory , orders the body , the world , and the heavens into a pattern of replication , in which each component of the system finds its precise analogical equivalent in every other component . What Michel Foucault has termed the ...
... poetic conceit , must have appeared to have been verging on the grotesque . Browne wrote : All flesh is grasse , is not onely metaphorically , but literally true , for all those creatures we behold , are but the herbs of the field ...
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 |