- Additional Authors
- 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