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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... structure of the object of study . But the 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 ...
... structure which stretched into every area of artistic and scientific endeavour in the early - modern period . The positive role of this new structure of knowledge was , undoubtedly , the establishment of a regime which was to spread ...
... structure and function of our own bodies - the fragile carapace in which we live our lives . THE MEDUSA'S HEAD AUTOPSY 1. Seeing with one's own eyes , eye - witnessing ; personal observation or inspection . 2. Inspection of a dead body ...
... structure of representation - of which the shield of Perseus is emblematic . Modern medicine , for all its seeming ability to map and then to conquer the formerly hidden terrain of the interior landscape , in fact renders it visible ...
... structure revealed as gloomy vaults , unsounded wells , panting furnaces , lakes of blood and urine . ' The concavities of my body are like another hell for their capacity . ' So Sir Thomas Urquhart , in 1653 , had observed in his ...
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 |