BODILY EXTREMITIES: PREOCCUPATIONS WITH THE HUMAN BODY IN EARLY MODERN EUROPEAN CULTURE; ED. BY FLORIKE EGMOND.
Publisher: ASHGATE
Published: 2003
Place of publication: ALDERSHOT
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 248
Description: "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.