Cultural History of the Human Body in the Renaissance

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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The Renaissance was a time of immense change in the social, political, economic, intellectual, and artistic arenas of the Western world. The cultural construction of the human body occupied a pivotal role in those transformations. The social and cultural meanings of embodiment revolutionized the intellectual, political, and emotional ideologies of the period. Covering the period from 1400 to 1650, this volume examines the flexible and shifting categories of the body at an unparalleled time of growth in geographical exploration, science, technology, and commerce. A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Renaissance presents an overview of the period with essays on the centrality of the human body in birth and death, health and disease, sexuality, beauty and concepts of the ideal, bodies marked by gender, race, class and disease, cultural representations and popular beliefs, and self and society.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-01-16
Mått168 x 242 x 22 mm
Vikt620 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCultural Histories Series
Antal sidor360
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781472554642

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Linda Kalof is Professor of Sociology at Michigan State University, USA and author of Looking at Animals in Human History and series editor of A Cultural History of Animals. William Bynum is Emeritus Professor of the History of Medicine at University College London, UK and author of many books, including Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century and History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction.

IllustrationsSeries PrefaceIntroduction William Bynum, University College London, UK1 Birth and Death in Early Modern Europe Lianne McTavish, University of Alberta, Canada2 Why Me? Why Now? How? The Body in Health and Disease Margaret Healy, University of Sussex, UK3 Sexuality: Of Man, Woman, and Beastly Business Katherine Crawford, Vanderbilt University, USA4 The Body in /as Text: Medical Knowledge and Technologies in the Renaissance Susan Broomhall, University of Western Australia, Australia5 The Common Body: Renaissance Popular Beliefs Karen Raber, University of Mississippi, USA6 Beauty and Concepts of the Ideal Mary Rogers, independent scholar7 The Marked Body as Otherness in Renaissance Italian Culture Patrizia Bettella, University of Alberta, Canada8 The Marked Body: The Witches, Lady Macbeth, and the Relics Diane Purkiss, University of Oxford, UK9 Fashioning Civil Bodies and "Others": Cultural Representations Margaret Healy, University of Sussex, UK10 Renaissance Selves, Renaissance Bodies Margaret L. King, City University of New York, USANotes Bibliography Contributors Index