A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Renaissance
Linda Kalof editor William Bynum editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:16th Jan '14
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A thematic overview of how the human body was perceived in the period from 1400 to 1650, covering birth and death, health and disease, sex and eroticism, medicine, popular beliefs and the self.
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 period 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 disease, cultural representations and popular beliefs, and self and society.
ISBN: 9781472554642
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 576g
360 pages