Bodily extremities : preoccupations with the human body in early modern European culture / / edited by Florike Egmond and Robert Zwijnenberg

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (246 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 700/.45
• Soggetto topico: Pain in art; Human figure in art; Arts, European; Violence in art
• Altri autori: EgmondFlorike ZwijnenbergRobert <1954->
• Note generali: First published 2003 by Ashgate Publishing.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction / Florike Egmond and Robert Zwijnenberg -- 2. Skin and the search for the interior : the representation of flaying in the art and anatomy of the Cinquecento / Daniela Bohde -- 3. 'Ogni pittore dipinge se' : on Leonardo da Vinci's Saint John the Baptist / Robert Zwijnenberg -- 4. The repulsive body : images of torture in seventeenth-century Naples / Harald Hendrix -- 5. Execution, dissection, pain and infamy : a morphological investigation / Florike Egmond -- 6. Dissecting Quaresmeprenant : Rabelais' representation of the human body : a rhetorical approach / Paul J. Smith -- 7. Reading new world bodies / Peter Mason -- 8. Physicians' and inquisitors' stories? Circumcision and crypto-Judaism in sixteenth-eighteenth-century Spain / Jose Pardo Tomas -- 9. The expression of pain in the later Middle Ages : deliverance, acceptance and infamy / Esther Cohen.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Bodily extremities
• ISBN: 1-315-26144-8; 1-351-95506-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910966548103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II