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• Part 1 The anatomical renaissance: the ancients of anatomy-- between ancients and moderns-- the rennaissance and anatomy - the first changes-- Vesalius - the revival of Galenic anatomy-- Columbus - the revival of Alexandrian anatomy-- Fabricius - the revival of Aristotelian anatomy.
• Part 2 The anatomical reformation, an enquiry?: an anatomical reformation?-- the reformation and anatomizing - Erasmian reform, Lutheran reformation - the word, the "radical reformation", counter-reformation Rome, reviving Aristotelian anatomy.
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Focusing on projects of inquiry, this history of anatomy is a discontinuous look at the different people seeking and finding different things within their social context. It asks why do people investigate nature? Why in that particular time and place? And why these particular people?
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• Contents: Early modern Spanish anatomy and 'La polemica de la ciencia espanola'-- Valencia-- Salamanca-- Valladolid-- Alcala de Henares-- Barcelona-- Zaragoza-- Beyond the universities-- Beyond Iberia-- Images of Spanish Renaissance anatomy-- Conclusion-- Bibliography-- Index.
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Taking the Vesalian anatomical revolution as its point of departure, this volume charts the apparent rise and fall of anatomy studies within universities in sixteenth-century Spain, focussing particularly on primary sources from 1550 to 1600. In doing so, it both clarifies the Spanish contribution to the field of anatomy and disentangles the distorted political and historiographical viewpoints emerging from previous research. Studies of early modern Iberian science have only been carried out coherently and collaboratively in the last few decades, even though fierce debates on the subject have dominated Spanish historiography for more than two centuries. In the field of anatomy studies, many uninformed and biased readings of archival sources have resulted in a very confused picture of the practice of dissection and the teaching of anatomy in the Iberian Peninsula, in which the highly complex conditions of anatomical research within Spain's national context are often oversimplified. The new empirical evidence that this book brings to light suggests a far more multifaceted narrative of Iberian Renaissance anatomy than has been presented to date.
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• Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction
• 1. Representations: The Dissection Scene--An Iconographic Investigation The Quodlibetarian Model: The Title Pages of Mondino dei Liuzzi's "Anatomia" The Persistence of a Model: Berengario da Carpi A Transitional Iconography? The Shift: The Title Page of Andreas Vesalius's "De humani corporis fabrica" Images of Dis
• section in the Vesalian "Manner"
• 2. Practices: Norms and Behavior at the Public Anatomy Lesson--The Studium Urbis in the Sixteenth Century Between the Curia and the College: A Portrait of the Physician Preliminary Procedures and Public Control The Anatomy Lesson and a Bit of History The Selection of the Cadaver: Explicit Criteria and Implicit Caution Around the Cadaver: Before and after the Anatomy Masses and Alms: Dissection and the Afterlife Between Saying and Doing
• 3. Tradition: An Archeology of Anatomical Knowledge and of Dissecting Practices Physicians and Philosophers Working on the Discovery of the Body, or the Uses of Anatomy Unveiling: Dissecting Animals, Dissecting Humans A Paradigm for a Millennium Unease, Disgust, Contempt: Aristotle, the Empiricists and Christians on the Dissection of the Human Body The Rebirth of Anatomy
• 4. Bodies and Texts: Renaissance Anatomy: Dissection and Anatomical Knowledge in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries The Dismemberment of Cadavers Authority and Evidence Limitations of Belief: Vesalius, Galen, the Galenists Revulsion and Unease Epilogue Appendix Notes Bibliography Index.
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One usually sees the Renaissance as a marked departure from older traditions, but Renaissance scholars often continued to cling to the teachings of the past. For instance, despite the evidence of their own dissections, which contradicted ancient and medieval texts, Renaissance anatomists continued to teach those outdated views for nearly two centuries. In "Books of the Body", Andrea Carlino explores the nature and causes of this intellectual inertia. On the one hand, anatomical practice was constrained by a reverence for classical texts and the belief that the study of anatomy was more properly part of natural philosophy than of medicine. On the other hand, cultural resistance to dissection and dismemberment of the human body, as well as moral and social norms that governed access to cadavers and the ritual of their public display in the anatomy theatre, also delayed anatomy's development. A history of both Renaissance anatomists and the bodies they dissected, this book should interest anyone studying Renaissance science, medicine, art, religion and society.
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This is a study of the culture of in dissection the English Renaissance, which informed intellectual enquiry in Europe for nearly 200 years. In this work, Jonathan Sawday explores the dark, morbid eroticism of the Renaissance anatomy theatre, and relates it to not only the great monuments of Renaissance art, but to the very foundation of the modern idea of knowledge. Though the dazzling displays of the "exterior" of the body in Renaissance literature and art have long been a subject of enquiry, this book considers the "interior" of the body, and what it meant to men and women in early modern culture. An interdisciplinary work, it re-assesses modern understanding of the literature and culture of the Renaissance and its conceptualization of the body within the domains of the medical and moral, the cultural and political.
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This text is a study of the culture of dissection in the English Renaissance which informed intellectual enquiry in Europe for nearly 200 years. It provides an interdisciplinary framework for conceptualizing the body in literature, art, and the domains of the religious, the moral, the medical and the political.
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This is a study of the culture of in dissection the English Renaissance, which informed intellectual enquiry in Europe for nearly 200 years. In this work, Jonathan Sawday explores the dark, morbid eroticism of the Renaissance anatomy theatre, and relates it to not only the great monuments of Renaissance art, but to the very foundation of the modern idea of knowledge. Though the dazzling displays of the "exterior" of the body in Renaissance literature and art have long been a subject of enquiry, this book considers the "interior" of the body, and what it meant to men and women in early modern culture. An interdisciplinary work, it re-assesses modern understanding of the literature and culture of the Renaissance and its conceptualization of the body within the domains of the medical and moral, the cultural and political.
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Known as the "century of anatomy, " the 16th century in Italy saw an explosion of studies and treatises on the discipline. Medical science advanced at an unprecedented rate, and physicians published on anatomy as never before. Simultaneously, many of the period's most prominent artists-including Leonardo and Michelangelo in Florence, Raphael in Rome, and Rubens working in Italy-turned to the study of anatomy to inform their own drawings and sculptures, some by working directly with anatomists and helping to illustrate their discoveries. The result was a rich corpus of art objects detailing the workings of the human body with an accuracy never before attained. Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy examines this crossroads between art and science, showing how the attempt to depict bone structure, musculature, and our inner workings-both in drawings and in three dimensions-constituted an important step forward in how the body was represented in art. While already remarkable at the time of their original publication, the anatomical drawings by 16th-century masters have even foreshadowed developments in anatomic studies in modern times.
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• Introduction-- Man made woman: early modern anatomy and the emergence of sexual difference-- Homoerotic metamorphoses: Ide, Gallathea and Falstaff-- Apparel anatomy and agency: performative challenges to masculine authority-- Roaring Girls and Tragic Maids: strategies of dramatic recuperation-- Misogynist anatomy: the visceral imperatives of Fordian tragedy-- Conclusion-- Bibliography-- Index.
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The significance of human anatomy to the most physical of art forms, the theatre, has hitherto been an under-explored topic. Filling this gap, Christian Billing questions conventional wisdom regarding the one-sex anatomical model and uses a range of medical treatises to delineate an emergent two-sex paradigm of human biology. The impact such a model had on the staging of the human form in English professional theatre is also explored in appraisals of: the homo-erotic significance of a two-sex paradigm; social and theatrical cross-dressing; the uses of theatrical androgyny; masculine corporality and the representation of assertive women; and the theatrical poetics of human dissection. Billing supports cultural and scientific study with close-readings of Lyly, Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Dekker, Beaumont, Fletcher, and Ford. The book provides a sophisticated and original analysis of the early modern stage body as a discursive site in wider debates concerning sexuality and gender.
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