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The Resource The body emblazoned : dissection and the human body in Renaissance culture, Jonathan Sawday

The body emblazoned : dissection and the human body in Renaissance culture, Jonathan Sawday

Label
The body emblazoned : dissection and the human body in Renaissance culture
Title
The body emblazoned
Title remainder
dissection and the human body in Renaissance culture
Statement of responsibility
Jonathan Sawday
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"An outstanding work of interdisciplinary scholarship and a fascinating read, The Body Emblazoned is a study of the Renaissance culture of dissection which informed intellectual enquiry in Europe for nearly two hundred years. Though the dazzling displays, in Renaissance art and literature, of the exterior of the body have long been a subject of enquiry, Jonathan Sawday considers in detail the interior of the body, and what it meant to men and women in early modern culture." "Sawday links the frequently illicit activities of the great anatomists of the period, to whose labours we are indebted for so much of our understanding of the structure and operation of the human body, to a wider cultural discourse which embraces not only the great monuments of Renaissance art, but the very foundation of a modern idea of knowledge. A richly interdisciplinary work, The Body Emblazoned reassesses modern understanding not only of the literature and culture of the Renaissance, but of the modern organization of knowledge which is now so familiar that it is only rarely questioned."--Jacket
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Sawday, Jonathan
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • plates
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Human anatomy
  • Human anatomy
  • Renaissance
  • Science, Renaissance
  • Dissection
  • Dissection
  • Human body
  • Medicine
Label
The body emblazoned : dissection and the human body in Renaissance culture, Jonathan Sawday
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-315) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
The autoptic vision -- The renaissance body, from colonization to invention -- The body in the theatre of desire -- Execution, anatomy, and infamy, inside the renaissance anatomy theatre -- Sacred anatomy and the order of representation -- The uncanny body -- The realm of anatomia, dissecting people -- 'Royal science'
Control code
31239185
Dimensions
26 cm
Extent
xii, 327 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9780415044448
Lccn
94036943
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
Label
The body emblazoned : dissection and the human body in Renaissance culture, Jonathan Sawday
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-315) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
The autoptic vision -- The renaissance body, from colonization to invention -- The body in the theatre of desire -- Execution, anatomy, and infamy, inside the renaissance anatomy theatre -- Sacred anatomy and the order of representation -- The uncanny body -- The realm of anatomia, dissecting people -- 'Royal science'
Control code
31239185
Dimensions
26 cm
Extent
xii, 327 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9780415044448
Lccn
94036943
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations

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