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The Body Emblazoned by Jonathan Sawday offers an outstanding piece of scholarship regarding the culture of dissection during the English Renaissance. This fascinating read explores how the Renaissance anatomy theatre informed intellectual enquiry in Europe for nearly two hundred years. Sawday examines the dark, morbid eroticism of the era and relates these practices to the great monuments of Renaissance art. The work connects the dazzling displays of the exterior body found in literature and art to the very foundation of the modern idea of knowledge. This Routledge publication provides a compelling look at how medical science and cultural expression met during a transformative period in history.

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This Routledge publication provides an outstanding study of the culture of dissection in the English Renaissance.

Author Jonathan Sawday explores the dark and morbid eroticism found within the Renaissance anatomy theatre.

The text relates anatomical practices to the great monuments of Renaissance art and literature.

This work examines how Renaissance dissection informed intellectual enquiry across Europe for nearly two hundred years.

The book connects the study of the human body to the very foundation of the modern idea of knowledge.

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hardcover
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Amazon UK
Release Date
25 May 1995
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27 December 2006

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