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anatomical illustration
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Author_Robert Zwijnenberg
body modification practices
Bridegroom's Friend
Bridegroom’s Friend
Capital Punishment
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cultural history of human anatomy
culture
Danse Macabre
De Historia De La Medicina
Del Disegno
dissection
early
early modern medicine
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Esaias Van De Velde
european
felix
Felix Platter
Florentine Accademia Del Disegno
Florike Egmond
Guy De Chauliac
Haim Beinart
Hugo Grotius
Inquisitorial Persecution
Johannes Der
judicial punishment history
Marino's Poem
Marino’s Poem
mason
Mireille Huchon
modern
pain and infamy research
peter
Peter Mason
physical deformity studies
Physical Indignity
platter
Portuguese Conversos
public
Public Dissections
Public Executions
Sea Water
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung
Trattato Della Pittura
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754607267
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 14 Apr 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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A strong preoccupation with the human body - often manifested in startling ways - is a characteristic shared by early modern Europeans and their present-day counterparts. Whilst modern manifestations of this interest include body piercing, tattoos, plastic surgery and eating disorders, early modern preoccupations encompassed such diverse phenomena as monstrous births and physical deformity, body snatching, public dissection, flagellation, judicial torture and public punishment. This volume explores such extreme manifestations of early modern bodily obsessions and fascinations, and their wider cultural significance. Agreeing that an interest in physical boundaries, extreme physical manifestations and situations developed and grew stronger during the early modern period, the essays in this volume investigate whether this interest can be traced in a wider range of cultural phenomena, and should therefore be given a prominent place in any future characterization of the early modern period. Taken as a whole, the volume can be read as an attempt to create a new context in which to explore the cultural history of the human body, as well as the metaphors of research and investigation themselves.
Florike Egmond, Robert Zwijnenberg
