Bodily extremities : preoccupations with the human body in early modern European culture / edited by Florike Egmond and Robert Zwijnenberg.

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Published: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction / Florike Egmond and Robert Zwijnenberg
  • 2. Skin and the Search for the Interior: The Representation of Flaying in the Art and Anatomy of the Cinquecento / Daniela Bohde
  • 3. 'Ogni pittore dipinge se' - On Leonardo da Vinci's Saint John the Baptist / Robert Zwijnenberg
  • 4. The Repulsive Body: Images of Torture in Seventeenth-Century Naples / Harald Hendrix
  • 5. Execution, Dissection, Pain and Infamy - A Morphological Investigation / Florike Egmond
  • 6. Dissecting Quaresmeprenant - Rabelais' Representation of the Human Body: A Rhetorical Approach / Paul J. Smith
  • 7. Reading New World Bodies / Peter Mason
  • 8. Physicians' and Inquisitors' Stories? Circumcision and Crypto-Judaism in Sixteenth-Eighteenth-Century Spain / Jose Pardo Tomas
  • 9. The Expression of Pain in the Later Middle Ages: Deliverance, Acceptance and Infamy / Esther Cohen.