Bodily Extremities
Subtitle: Preoccupations With the Human Body in Early Modern European Culture (Early Modern History)
Contributors: Florike Egmond (Editor); Robert Zwijnenberg (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: May 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780754607267
Subjects: Cultural studies; European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Social & cultural anthropology; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; History: World; Europe - General; History; Art & Art Instruction; Europe; Human figure in art; General; Arts, European; Pain in art; Violence in art
First sentence: A strong preoccupation with the human body, which manifests itself in often startling ways, seems to be a characteristic shared by early modern Europeans and their present-day counterparts.