Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 338 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also published in print
ISBN:
9781350049741
Series Statement:
The Cultural Histories Series volume 3
Content:
"The Renaissance was a time of immense change in the social, political, economic, intellectual and artistic arenas of the Western world. The cultural construction of the human body occupied a pivotal role in those transformations. The social and cultural meanings of embodiment revolutionized the intellectual, political and emotional ideologies of the period. Covering the years from 1400 to 1650, this volume examines the flexible and shifting categories of the body at an unparalleled time of growth in geographical exploration, science, technology and commerce. A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Renaissance presents an overview of the period with essays on the centrality of the human body in birth and death, health and disease, sexuality, beauty and concepts of the ideal, bodies marked by gender, race, class and age, cultural representations and popular beliefs and the self and society."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction / William Bynum (University College London, UK) -- 1 Birth and Death in Early Modern Europe / Lianne McTavish (University of Alberta, CANADA) -- 2 Why Me? Why Now? How? The Body in Health and Disease / Margaret Healy (University of Sussex, UK) -- 3 Sexuality: Of Man, Woman, and Beastly Business / Katherine Crawford (Vanderbilt University, USA) -- 4 The Body in /as Text: Medical Knowledge and Technologies in the Renaissance / Susan Broomhall (University of Western Australia, AUSTRALIA) -- 5 The Common Body: Renaissance Popular Beliefs / Karen Raber (University of Mississippi, USA) -- 6 Beauty and Concepts of the Ideal / Mary Rogers (independent scholar) -- 7 The Marked Body as Otherness in Renaissance Italian Culture / Patrizia Bettella (University of Alberta, CANADA) -- 8 The Marked Body: The Witches, Lady Macbeth, and the Relics / Diane Purkiss (University of Oxford, UK) -- 9 Fashioning Civil Bodies and "Others": Cultural Representations / Margaret Healy (University of Sussex, UK) -- 10 Renaissance Selves, Renaissance Bodies / Margaret L. King (City University of New York, USA) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index
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Also published in print
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350995598
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781472554642
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1350049743
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1847887902
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781847887900
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781472554642
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781350049741
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