Body of Evidence

Francesco Paolo de Ceglia, Ph.D. (2001), is a Professor of History of Science at the University of Bari, where he directs the Interuniversity Research Center, Seminary of the History of Science. He has often been a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He has published monographs and articles on the relationship between the history of science and theology, including The Secret of Saint Januarius. Natural History of a Neapolitan Miracle (Einaudi, 2016).

• List of FiguresContributing AuthorsIntroduction: Corpses, Evidence and Medical Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age Francesco Paolo de CegliaSECTION 1. FROM DIVINATION TO AUTOPSY 1. Saving the Phenomenon: Why Corpses Bled in the Presence of their Murderer in Early Modern ScienceFrancesco Paolo de Ceglia2. Unfamiliar Faces: The Identification of Corpses In Late Medieval Valencia Carmel Ferragud3. Reading the Corpse (Bologna, Mid 13th-Early 16thth Century) Tommaso DurantiSECTION 2. THE UNCERTAINTIES OF THE ANATOMICAL GAZE4. Dissection Techniques, Forensics and Anatomy in the Sixteenth Century Allen Shotwell5. Monstrous Exegesis: Opening Up Double Monsters in Early Modern EuropeAlan W.H. Bates 6. Corpses, Contagion and Courage: Fear and the Inspection of Bodies in Seventeenth-Century London Kevin Siena7. Knowledge from and on Bodies and Resistance to Anatomical Discourse (Padua, 16th-18th Centuries) Massimo GaltarossaSECTION 3: CORPSES AND EVIDENCES8. Reading Deeds, Lifestyles and Bodies: The Classification of Suicide in Early Modern EuropeAlexander Kästner9. Corpses and Confessions: Forensic Investigation and Infanticide in Early Modern GermanyMargaret Brannan Lewis10. Visum et Repertum: Medical Doctrine and Criminal Procedures in France and Naples (17th-18th Centuries) Diego Carnevale11. Frightening Whirlpools: Drowning in France in the Eighteenth CenturyLucia De Frenza and Caterina TisciBibliographyIndex

"The Body of Evidence is a welcome contribution to the history of science that moves the history of the body, and scientific interest in it, away from anatomical textbooks and treatises to look at how that knowledge was deployed in legal contexts."- Sarah Tarlow, University of Leicester, in: Journal of British Studies, January 2022, Vol. 61, No. 1: pp. 190-91.