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The book "The Body Emblazoned" by Jonathan Sawday is a well-researched and intriguing exploration of the culture of dissection during the English Renaissance. It delves into the morbid fascination with the human body and its connection to intellectual inquiry and art during this time period. The author also examines the significance of the body's interior, rather than just its exterior, in Renaissance literature and culture. This interdisciplinary work challenges modern understanding of the Renaissance and its views on the body in relation to medicine, morality, culture, and politics.
An outstanding piece of scholarship and a fascinating read,
The Body Emblazoned is a compelling study of the culture of dissection the English Renaissance, which informed intellectual enquiry in Europe for nearly two hundred years. In this outstanding 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,
The Body Emblazoned considers the
interior of the body, and what it meant to men and women in early modern culture.
A richly interdisciplinary work,
The Body Emblazoned 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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