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The Body Emblazoned - Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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The Body Emblazoned - Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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An outstanding piece of interdisciplinary scholarship, "The Body
Emblazoned" is a study of the Renaissance culture of dissection
which informed intellectual inquiry in Europe for nearly two
hundred years. Though the dazzling displays in Renaissance art and
literature of the "exterior" of the body have long been a subject
of enquiry, Jonathan Sawday considers in detail the "interior" of
the body, and what it meant to men and women in early modern
culture.
Sawday links the frequently illicit activities of the great
anatomists of the period, to whose labors we are indebted for so
much of our understanding of the structure and operation of the
human body, to a wider cultural discourse which embraces not only
the great moments of Renaissance art, but the very foundation of a
modern idea of knowledge. Illustrated with thirty-two black and
white prints, "The Body Emblazoned" re-assesses modern
understanding not only of the literature and culture of the
Renaissance, but of the modern organization of knowledge which is
now so familiar that it is only rarely questioned.
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