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..
Price:
$32.45
[
Notify me when price goes down.]
