Beschreibung

Vorwort
A thematic overview of how the human body was perceived in the period from 1400 to 1650, covering birth and death, health and disease, sex and eroticism, medicine, popular beliefs and the self.

Autorentext
Linda Kalof is Professor of Sociology at Michigan State University, USA and author of Looking at Animals in Human History and series editor of A Cultural History of Animals. William Bynum is Emeritus Professor of the History of Medicine at University College London, UK and author of many books, including Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century and History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction.

Klappentext

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 period 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 disease, cultural representations and popular beliefs, and self and society.

Inhalt
Illustrations Series Preface 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

Produktinformationen

Titel:	A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Renaissance
Editor:	Linda Kalof William Bynum
EAN:	9781472554642
ISBN:	978-1-4725-5464-2
Format:	Kartonierter Einband
Herausgeber:	Bloomsbury 3PL
Genre:	Soziologie
Anzahl Seiten:	360
Gewicht:	698g
Größe:	H241mm x B169mm x T22mm
Jahr:	2014