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. Though the dazzling displays of the exterior of the body in Renaissance literature and art have long been a subject of enquiry, The Body Emblazoned considers the interior of the body, and what it meant to men and women in early modern culture. A richly interdisciplinary work, The Body Emblazoned re-assesses modern understanding of the literature and culture of the Renaissance and its conceptualization of the body within the domains of the medical and moral, the cultural and political. |
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Page viii
... body which places the human anatomy at the centre of this study. Rather, as I shall argue throughout this book, the early-modern period sees the emergence ofa new image of the human interior, together with a new means of studying that ...
... body which places the human anatomy at the centre of this study. Rather, as I shall argue throughout this book, the early-modern period sees the emergence ofa new image of the human interior, together with a new means of studying that ...
Page ix
... interior world of the human frame. F0r 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 world of the human frame. F0r 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 ...
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... body, we will have to trace the fear (or desire) which the prospect of anatomical knowledge of the body's interior seems to have excited. Paradoxically, the very violence of dissective culture was a factor in the production of some of ...
... body, we will have to trace the fear (or desire) which the prospect of anatomical knowledge of the body's interior seems to have excited. Paradoxically, the very violence of dissective culture was a factor in the production of some of ...
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... 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 conquering ...
... 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 conquering ...
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... body has no 'design', but, looking into the interior, it is hard to shake off the impression that the body's internal organization is the product of careful though t, and even economical arrangement. Witnessing a modern post-mortem ...
... body has no 'design', but, looking into the interior, it is hard to shake off the impression that the body's internal organization is the product of careful though t, and even economical arrangement. Witnessing a modern post-mortem ...
Contents
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3 THE BODY IN THE THEATRE OF DESIRE | 39 |
INSIDE THE RENAISSANCE ANATOMY THEATRE | 54 |
5 SACRED ANATOMY AND THE ORDER OF REPRESENTATION | 85 |
6 THE UNCANNY BODY | 141 |
DISSECTING PEOPLE
| 183 |
8 ROYAL SCIENCE | 230 |
Notes | 271 |
Index | 316 |
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