In the Renaissance

Author(s)

• Kalof, Linda
• Bynum, W. F. (William F.)

Bibliographic Information

In the Renaissance

edited by Linda Kalof and William Bynum

（A cultural history of the human body / general editors, Linda Kalof and William Bynum, v. 3）

Berg, 2010

English ed

Other Title

A cultural history of the human body in the Renaissance

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-333) and index

Contents of Works

• Birth and death in early modern Europe / Lianne McTavish
• Why me? Why Now? How? : the body in health and disease / Margaret Healy
• Sexuality : of man, woman, and beastly business / Katherine Crawford
• The body in/as text : medical knowledge and technologies in the Renaissance / Susan Broomhall
• The common body : Renaissance popular beliefs / Karen Raber
• Beauty and concepts of the ideal / Mary Rogers
• The marked body as otherness in Renaissance Italian culture / Patrizia Bettella
• The marked body : the witches, Lady Macbeth, and the relics / Diane Purkiss
• Fashioning civil bodies and "others" : cultural representations / Margaret Healy
• Renaissance selves, Renaissance bodies / Margaret L. King

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

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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Details

• NCID: BB03290371
• ISBN:
  • 9781847887900
• LCCN: 2010502609
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford, UK
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 346 p.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HM636
  • NLM : HM 636
  • DC22 : 306.4
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Human body -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : Human body in popular culture
  • MESH : Human Body
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB03288857