The Body Emblazoned : Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture
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The Body Emblazoned is a compelling study of the culture of dissection in the English Renaissance, which informed intellectual enquiry in Europe for nearly two hundred years. In this outstanding work, Jonathan Sawday explores the dark, morbid eroticism of the Renaissance anatomy theatre. He traces the often illicit activities of the great anatomists of the period, linking their work to a wider cultural discourse which embraces not only the great monuments of Renaissance art, but also the very foundations of the modern idea of knowledge. The Body Emblazoned provides a richly interdisciplinary framework for conceptualizing the body in literature, art and the domains of the religious, the moral, the medical and the political.
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- ISBN-13: 9780415157193
- ISBN-10: 0415157196
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish Date: October 1996
- Dimensions: 10.06 x 7.06 x 0.92 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
- Page Count: 372
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