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Title

Roman bodies : antiquity to the eighteenth century / edited by Andrew Hopkins and Maria Wyke.

Publication

London : British School at Rome, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hopkins, Andrew, 1965-
• Wyke, Maria
• British School at Rome

Description

x, 265 p. : ill., facsims., map, plans; 28 cm.

Summary

This collection of seventeen essays explores the dramatic changes in Western conceptions of the body, encompassing the cultural shifts that occurred across Empire, religion and science, from antiquity to the eighteenth century.

Subject

• Geschichte 100 v. Chr.-1800
• Art, Italian > Italy > Rome > Themes, motives
• Human body > Rome > History
• Human body > Social aspects > Rome
• Human body > Symbolic aspects > Rome
• Human figure in art
• Human beings in art
• Dead in art
• Art, Roman > History
• Art, Italian > Italy > Rome
• Art > Italy > Rome > History
• Rome > Antiquities

Genre/Form

• History
• Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-246) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The body of Rome: introduction / Maria Wyke, Andrew Hopkins -- Archetypally Roman? representing Seneca's ageing body / Catharine Edwards -- Circumcision, de-circumcision and self-image: Celsus's 'operations on the penis' / Ralph Jackson -- A Roman perspective on circumcision / Pierre Cordier -- 'In the foreskin of your flesh': the pure male body in late antiquity / Gillian Clark -- Headhunters in the Roman army / Nic Fields -- Execution in effigy: severed heads and decapitated statues in imperial Rome / Eric R. Varner -- Disabled bodies: the (mis)representations of the lame in antiquity and their reappearance in early Christian and Medieval art / Livio Pestilli -- Truth, perception, and the pagan body in the Roman martyr narratives / Kristina Sessa -- The paradoxical body of Saint Agnes / Lucy Grig -- The relic translations of Paschal I: transforming city and cult / Caroline Goodson -- Majesty and mortality: attitudes towards the corpse in papal funeral ceremonies / Minou Schraven -- A theatre of cruelty and forgiveness: dissection, institutions and the moral discourse of anatomy in sixteenth-century Rome / Andrea Carlino -- Not torments, but delights: Antonio Gallonio's Trattato de gli instrumenti di martirio of 1591 and its illustrations / Opher Mansour -- Ancient bodies and contested identities in the English college martyrdom cycle, Rome / Richard L. Williams -- Secrets of the heart: the role of saintly bodies in the medical discourse of counter-reformation Rome / Catrien Santing -- Contesting the sacred heart of Jesus in late eighteenth-century Rome / Jon L. Seydl.

ISBN

• 0904152448
• 9780904152449

LCCN

^^2006275073

OCLC

• 61869577
• SCSB-12346177

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library