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The Body Emblazoned 1st Edition

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4.9 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
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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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  1. ISBN-10
    0415157196
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    978-0415157193
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publication date
    May 25, 1995
  5. Language
    English
  6. Dimensions
    6.85 x 0.84 x 9.69 inches
  7. Print length
    372 pages
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'At the end of the 20th century, when cyberspace and AIDS have forced us to ask questions about the future of our physical selves, it's instructive to see where we've come from. It may help us see where we're going.' - Wired

'This book is a tour de force that promises to shape the questions scholars will ask about the representation of the early modern body for years to come.' - - Medievalia Et Humanistica

'Sawday's disturbing, revelatory work is a triumph.' - The Independent

' ... this is a compendiously ambitious and provocative work.' - Times Literary Supplement

'an absorbing and ambitious book' - - The Sunday Times

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (May 25, 1995)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 372 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0415157196
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0415157193
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.85 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.85 x 0.84 x 9.69 inches
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  • Brown Tabby Tomcat
    5.0 out of 5 stars This book significantly changed how I perceive the human body.
    Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2010
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    I work in the physical sciences, not biological or medical sciences, but I absolutely loved this book. We live in these clumsy things, but most of us rarely appreciate our bodies, much less appreciate those who initially undertook the gruesome task of deciphering our anatomy long before the advent of formaldehyde or other preservatives. This book places their efforts, along with the work of those who illustrated and published their discoveries, within a sensible and coherent historical (social, religious and scientific) context. I recommend it very highly!
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  • Bonam Pak
    5.0 out of 5 stars 4.5 Stars for an Interesting, Yet Neglected Topic
    Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2009
    I read the 1996 revised paperback edition of the 1995 book. However, only a small number of minor errors has been corrected and two paragraphs have been added to the preface. The book has some 370 pages, which include 32 black and white picture pages, 44 footnote pages and 270 regular text pages.

    Many interesting facts and analyses are offered for both, professionals and lay readers. Most of all on the beginning of modern European dissection in the Renaissance and its surrounding circumstances such as procurement of corpses, the ultimate punishment of public dissection after execution, dissection theaters and artistic representation of the procedures e.g. by Rembrandt. But also the parallel discovery of the world in colonialism and the discovery of the human body. And the invention of the dividing and subdividing of body units. Bonus information shed light upon missed knowledge opportunities not transported via historical motion pictures: for example that all women at Elizabeth (Spotlight Series)s court had to walk around bare breasted unless married with the queen's consent and that the executed coup plotters of Valkyrie (Single-Disc Edition) had (once again) been given for dissection for extra punishment (a procedure which was refused by the university).

    You may be interested in Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers on modern anatomy and other uses of human corpses.
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  • yelena mazour-matusevich
    5.0 out of 5 stars outstanding!
    Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2013
    I loved this book. Initially I intended only to read certain chapters for my own topic but could not help but read the whole book. I wish all academics wrote like this. Simple without being simplistic. Highly recommend. Fantastic book.
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  • Danyelle Mulin
    4.0 out of 5 stars If you're interested in this topic, you probably will like it
    Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2013
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    This book is about human dissection in the early modern period. It explores the social, literary, religious, and theoretical implications of the practice very thoroughly and provides lots of textual and pictorial evidence. It is interesting, but you'll get more out of it if you have a bit of background knowledge on the time period and body theory, though that is not necessary. I didn't know anything about all this because I started it for a class, and I found it to be interesting although really really long and sometimes boring to me because its not exactly what I'm interested. But I could see it being a great book for someone interested in the topic
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  • Mr. Stuart Heath
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Renaissance anatomized
    Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2000
    The Body Emblazoned is a wide-ranging History of what the Author terms the Renaissance Culture of Dissection. In so doing, its medical, scientific, philosophical, sociological, legal and artistic aspects are opened and cut up for our perusal. The Author demonstrates how the nature of the practice of anatomy changed over the period from, in his analogy, a voyage of discovery to a kind of colonisation through taxonomy, a classification and naming of parts. We are shown a sea-change in understanding, as the prevailing model for the body's inner workings was transformed from Microcosm to Mechanism. Along the way, we learn of the many difficulties in obtaining cadavers for dissection, of the curious architecture of anatomy theatres, and of how Rembrandt and Descartes might have met in the butchers' shops of 17th century Amsterdam. Mr. Sawday's Lit. Crit. background serves him well in his penetrating analyses of anatomical reference in the works of Spenser, Donne, Carew, Cavendish and Traherne, among others, but elsewhere it seems obtrusive, in the guise of barely relevant references to Freud, Deleuze and Joyce, for example, and in a somewhat irritating overuse of inverted 'commas'. Another irritation is the Author's heavy-handed moralizing: he is too anxious to spell out how oppressive, or misogynist, or cruel are the opinions and actions of the anatomists and their ilk: in my opinion such observations have more force when readers are left to draw their own moral conclusions. That said, one by no means has to agree with a book in order to enjoy it, and this one never lost my interest. It is a most intelligent and stimulating work, skilfully presented and nicely illustrated too.
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  • P. Callaghan
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 28, 2013
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    Great book, if you like this kind of reading then this is the book for you! Good story as well, as a great author!
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