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The Man Who Crucified Himself - Readings of a Medical Case in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,539
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The Man Who Crucified Himself - Readings of a Medical Case in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Hardcover): Maria Boehmer

The Man Who Crucified Himself - Readings of a Medical Case in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Hardcover)

Maria Boehmer

Series: Clio Medica, 97

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The Man Who Crucified Himself is the history of a sensational nineteenth-century medical case. In 1805 a shoemaker called Mattio Lovat attempted to crucify himself in Venice. His act raised a furore, and the story spread across Europe. For the rest of the century Lovat's case fuelled scientific and popular debates on medicine, madness, suicide and religion. Drawing on Italian, German, English and French sources, Maria Boehmer traces the multiple readings of the case and identifies various 'interpretive communities'. Her meticulously researched study sheds new light on Lovat's case and offers fresh insights on the case narrative as a genre - both epistemic and literary.

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Imprint: Brill
Country of origin: Netherlands
Series: Clio Medica, 97
Release date: November 2018
First published: 2019
Authors: Maria Boehmer
Dimensions: 235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 978-90-04-35359-6
Categories: Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine
Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Psychiatry
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > From 1900 > Reportage & collected journalism
Books > History > European history > General
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LSN: 90-04-35359-3
Barcode: 9789004353596

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