Title: The Body Emblazoned
First published: 1995
Description: An outstanding work of interdisciplinary scholarship and a fascinating read, The Body Emblazoned is a study of the Renaissance culture of dissection which informed intellectual enquiry in Europe for nearly two hundred years. Though the dazzling displays, in Renaissance art and literature, of the exterior of the body have long been a subject of enquiry, Jonathan Sawday considers in detail the interior of the body, and what it meant to men and women in early modern culture.

Sawday links the frequently illicit activities of the great anatomists of the period, to whose labours we are indebted for so much of our understanding of the structure and operation of the human body, to a wider cultural discourse which embraces not only the great monuments of Renaissance art, but the very foundation of a modern idea of knowledge.

A richly interdisciplinary work, The Body Emblazoned reassesses modern understanding not only of the literature and culture of the Renaissance, but of the modern organization of knowledge which is now so familiar that it is only rarely questioned.
Subjects: Renaissance Science, Dissection, Renaissance, Science, Renaissance, Body, Human, Human Body, Human anatomy, History, Dissection, history, Renaissance, england, Science, history, Anatomy, early works to 1800, Medicine, Anatomy, History, 16th Century, History, 17th Century, Science, Anatomie humaine, Histoire, Corps humain, Sciences de la Renaissance, Médecine, MEDICAL, Life Sciences, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Histoire du 18ème siècle, Histoire du 17ème siècle, Anatomie, Menselijk lichaam, Dissecacao humana, Medicina (historia), Anatomia humana, Blasons (littérature), Littérature anglaise, Thèmes, motifs, Dans l'art, Anatomie artistique, Dans la littérature, Dissection du corps humain, Dix-septième siècle, Human anatomy--history, Human anatomy--history--16th century, Human anatomy--history--17th century, Renaissance--england, Science, renaissance--england, Dissection--history, Dissection--history--16th century, Dissection--history--17th century, Qm11 .s28 1996
Places: England
Time periods: 16th century, 17th century
LC classification: QM11 .S28 1995