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A cultural history of the human body in the Renaissance

Title
A cultural history of the human body in the Renaissance [electronic resource] / edited by Linda Kalof and William Bynum ; [general editors, Linda Kalof and William Bynum].
Publication
Oxford [Eng.] : Berg, 2010

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Description
1 online resource (17 entries) : 75 images, digital files.
Summary
Covers years of the human body as a physical, social, spiritual and cultural object.
Series Statement
Cultural history of the human body ; v. 3
Uniform Title
  • Cultural history of the human body in the Renaissance (Online)
  • Cultural history of the human body ; v. 3.
Alternative Title
In the Renaissance.
Subject
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Also available in print version.
System Details (note)
  • Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Source of Description (note)
  • Description based on title page of print version.
Contents
1. Birth and Death in Early Modern Europe / Lianne McTavish -- 2. Why Me? Why Now? How? The Body in Health and Disease / Margaret Healy -- 3. Sexuality: Of Man, Woman, and Beastly Business / Katherine Crawford -- 4. The Body in/as Text: Medical Knowledge and Technologies in the Renaissance / Susan Broomhall -- 5. The Common Body: Renaissance Popular Beliefs / Karen Raber -- 6. Beauty and Concepts of the Ideal / Mary Rogers -- 7. The Marked Body as Otherness in Renaissance Italian Culture / Patrizia Bettella -- 8. The Marked Body: The Witches, Lady Macbeth, and the Relics / Diane Purkiss -- 9. Fashioning Civil Bodies and "Others": Cultural Representations / Margaret Healy -- 10. Renaissance Selves, Renaissance Bodies / Margaret L. King.
ISBN
9781849729673 (online)
OCLC
ssj0000506558
Title
A cultural history of the human body in the Renaissance [electronic resource] / edited by Linda Kalof and William Bynum ; [general editors, Linda Kalof and William Bynum].
Imprint
Oxford [Eng.] : Berg, 2010 (Boston, Mass. : Credo Reference, 2011.)
Edition
English ed.
Series
Cultural history of the human body ; v. 3
Cultural history of the human body ; v. 3.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Additional Formats
Also available in print version.
System Details
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Note
Description based on title page of print version.
Connect to:
Added Author
Bynum, W. F. (William F.), 1943-
Kalof, Linda.
Credo Reference (Firm)
Other Form:
Print version: 1847887902 9781847887900 (DLC) 2010502609 6 v. : ill., ports.
LCCN
2010502609
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