A Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity

Daniel H Garrison editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:1st Mar '12

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A thematic overview of how the human body was perceived in the period from 750 BCE to 1000 CE, covering birth and death, health and disease, sex and eroticism, medicine, popular beliefs and the self.

A Cultural History of The Human Body in Antiquity explores 1,750 years of the history of the West, from Homer to the end of the millennium CE. This span of time includes three major eras of Greek civilization, the Roman Republic, the Roman Empires until its collapse in the 5th century CE and Medieval Europe up to the transition to the High Middle Ages. Key issues for this period include the invention of the nude as a cultural icon, the early development of Western medicine, and formative discourses about the identity and ethical management of the body. A Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity 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.

The excellent quality of the studies presented here can only be praised and valued. * CADMO (Bloomsbury translation) *

ISBN: 9781847887887

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 816g

320 pages