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The body emblazoned : dissection and the human body in Renaissance culture

Title
The body emblazoned : dissection and the human body in Renaissance culture / Jonathan Sawday.
Author
Sawday, Jonathan.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.

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xii, 327 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
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.
Subject
  • Human anatomy > History > 16th century
  • Human anatomy > History > 17th century
  • Renaissance > England
  • Science, Renaissance > England
  • Dissection > History > 16th century
  • Dissection > History > 17th century
  • Human body
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-315) and index.
Contents
1. The Autoptic Vision -- 2. The Renaissance Body: From Colonization to Invention -- 3. The Body in the Theatre of Desire -- 4. Execution, Anatomy, and Infamy: Inside the Renaissance Anatomy Theatre -- 5. Sacred Anatomy and the Order of Representation -- 6. The Uncanny Body -- 7. The Realm of Anatomia: Dissecting People -- 8. 'Royal Science'.
ISBN
0415044448
LCCN
94036943
OCLC
  • 31239185
  • ocm31239185
  • SCSB-14515640
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries