Overview

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 years 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 age, cultural representations and popular beliefs and the self and society.

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Author:   Linda Kalof (Michigan State University, USA) ,  William Bynum ,  Kalof ,  Bynum
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Berg Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 17.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.776kg
ISBN:  

9781847887900

ISBN 10:   1847887902
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   01 March 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"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"

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Linda Kalof is Professor of Sociology at Michigan State University and author of Looking at Animals in Human History and editor of A Cultural History of Animals (Berg, 2007). William Bynum is Emeritus Professor of the History of Medicine at University College London and author of many books, including Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century and History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction.

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