ISBN:
9781641892391
,
9781641892384
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (viii, 203 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
New edition.
Series Statement:
Borderlines
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.4
Keywords:
Human body Symbolic aspects
;
Human body in literature History To 1500
;
Human figure in art History To 1500
;
Human body Religious aspects To 1500
;
History
;
Human body in literature
;
Human body ; Symbolic aspects
;
Human body in literature ; History ; To 1500
;
Human figure in art ; History ; To 1500
;
Human body ; Religious aspects ; History ; To 1500
;
Human body in literature
Abstract:
This interdisciplinary collection of essays, containing chapters from specialists in history, art history, medical history, and literature, examines how the intimately familiar language of the body served as a convenient medium through which to imagine and describe transformations of the larger world, both for the better and also for the worse. Its individual contributors demonstrate the myriad ways in which rethinking the human body was one way to approach rethinking the social, political, and religious realities of the world from the Middle Ages until the early modern period.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020)
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781641892391/type/BOOK
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