افراط‌های بدنی: مشغولیت‌ها با بدن انسان در فرهنگ اروپای نوین (تاریخ نوین)

A strong preoccupation with the human body - often manifested in startling ways - is a characteristic shared by early modern Europeans and their present-day counterparts. Whilst modern manifestations of this interest include body piercing, tattoos, plastic surgery and eating disorders, early modern preoccupations encompassed such diverse phenomena as monstrous births and physical deformity, body snatching, public dissection, flagellation, judicial torture and public punishment. This volume explores such extreme manifestations of early modern bodily obsessions and fascinations, and their wider cultural significance. Agreeing that an interest in physical boundaries, extreme physical manifestations and situations developed and grew stronger during the early modern period, the essays in this volume investigate whether this interest can be traced in a wider range of cultural phenomena, and should therefore be given a prominent place in any future characterization of the early modern period. Taken as a whole, the volume can be read as an attempt to create a new context in which to explore the cultural history of the human body, as well as the metaphors of research and investigation themselves. A Strong Preoccupation With The Human Body - Often Manifested In Startling Ways - Is A Characteristic Shared By Early Modern Europeans And Their Present-day Counterparts. Whilst Modern Manifestations Of This Interest Include Body Piercing, Tattoos, Plastic Surgery And Eating Disorders, Early Modern Preoccupations Encompassed Such Diverse Phenomena As Monstrous Births And Physical Deformity, Body Snatching, Public Dissection, Flagellation, Judicial Torture And Public Punishment. This Volume Explores Such Extreme Manifestations Of Early Modern Bodily Obsessions And Fascinations, And Their Wider Cultural Significance.--book Jacket. Skin And The Search For The Interior: The Representation Of Flaying In The Art And Anatomy Of The Cinquecento / Daniela Bohde -- 'ogni Pittore Dipinge Sé ; On Leonardo Da Vinci's Saint John The Baptist / Robert Zwijnenberg --the Repulsive Body: Images Of Torture In Seventeenth-century Naples / Harald Hendrix -- Execution, Dissection, Pain And Infamy: A Morphological Investigation / Florike Egmond -- Dissecting Quaresmeprenant; Rabelais' Representation Of The Human Body: A Rhetorical Approach / Paul J. Smith -- Reading New World Bodies / Peter Mason -- Physicians' And Inquisitors' Stories? Circumcision And Crypto-judaism In Sixteenth-eighteenth-century Spain / José Pardo Tomás -- The Expression Of Pain In The Later Middle Ages: Deliverance, Acceptance And Infamy / Esther Cohen. Edited By Florike Egmond And Robert Zwijnenberg. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 List of Figures 7 Notes on Contributors 10 1 Introduction 12 2 Skin and the Search for the Interior: The Representation of Flaying in the Art and Anatomy of the Cinquecento 21 3 ‘Ogni pittore dipinge sé’ – On Leonardo da Vinci’s Saint John the Baptist 59 4 The Repulsive Body: Images of Torture in Seventeenth-Century Naples 79 5 Execution, Dissection, Pain and Infamy – A Morphological Investigation 103 6 Dissecting Quaresmeprenant – Rabelais’ Representation of the Human Body: A Rhetorical Approach 140 7 Reading New World Bodies 159 8 Physicians’ and Inquisitors’ Stories? Circumcision and Crypto-Judaism in Sixteenth–Eighteenth-Century Spain 179 9 The Expression of Pain in the Later Middle Ages: Deliverance, Acceptance and Infamy 206 Index 232 Preoccupations with the Human Body in Early Modern European Culture Focusing on learning about history rather than learning from history, these essays address early modern preoccupations with body art, piercing, tattoos, cosmetic surgery, public dissection, drug experimentation and the body's extremities A strong preoccupation with the human body, which manifests itself in often startling ways, seems to be a characteristic shared by early modern Europeans and their present-day counterparts.