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Format: 1 online resource.

ISBN: 90-04-28482-6

Series Statement: Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science ; Volume 30

Content: When, why and how was it first believed that the corpse could reveal ‘signs’ useful for understanding the causes of death and eventually identifying those responsible for it? The Body of Evidence. Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine , edited by Francesco Paolo de Ceglia, shows how in the late Middle Ages the dead body, which had previously rarely been questioned, became a specific object of investigation by doctors, philosophers, theologians and jurists. The volume sheds new light on the elements of continuity, but also on the effort made to liberate the semantization of the corpse from what were, broadly speaking, necromantic practices, which would eventually merge into forensic medicine.

Note: Front Matter -- Copyright page -- , Figures -- , Contributors -- , Corpses, Evidence and Medical Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age / , From Divination to Autopsy -- , Saving the Phenomenon: Why Corpses Bled in the Presence of Their Murderer in Early Modern Science / , Unfamiliar Faces: the Identification of Corpses in Late Medieval Valencia / , Reading the Corpse in the Late Middle Ages (Bologna, Mid-13th Century–Early 16th Century) / , The Uncertainties of the Anatomical Gaze -- , Dissection Techniques, Forensics and Anatomy in the 16th Century / , Monstrous Exegesis: Opening Up Double Monsters in Early Modern Europe / , Corpses, Contagion and Courage: Fear and the Inspection of Bodies in 17th-Century London / , Knowledge from Bodies and Resistance to Anatomical Discourse (Padua, 16th–18th Centuries) / , Corpses and Evidences -- , Reading Moral Conduct and Physical Characteristics: the Classification of Suicide in Early Modern Europe / , Corpses and Confessions: Forensic Investigation and Infanticide in Early Modern Germany / , Visum et Repertum: Medical Doctrine and Criminal Procedures in France and Naples (17th–18th Centuries) / , Frightening Whirlpools: Drowning in France in the 18th Century / , Back Matter -- , Bibliography -- , Index. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 90-04-28481-8

Language: English