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 nerval figure appear congruent ( see Figure 1 ) . The new internal topography , which soon came to replace the older schematic diagrams of the arterial , venous , and nervous systems , revealed the body as a delicate ...
... structure that they first encountered as they embarked upon the project of unravelling the body's recesses . Rather , they found themselves wandering within a geographical entity . The body was territory , an ( as yet ) undiscovered ...
... new continent was conducted , its expanses were so ( microcosmically ) vast , its recesses so hidden , that understanding followed only after the greatest exertion . The term that endlessly seems to structure 27 THE RENAISSANCE BODY.
... structure the voyage into the body's interior in the seventeenth century was the ' America ' which Donne's roving hands sought to clutch . The exultant yell of discovery in Donne's elegy on the female body - ' O my America ! ' - a cry ...
... structure which stretches over the cosmos : Now the Sun is unarm'd And the Moon by us charm'd All the Stars dissolv'd to a Jelly ; Now the Thighs of the Crown , And the Arms are lopp'd down , And the Body is all but a Belly : 40 ...
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 |