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Portraits Of Human Monsters In The Renaissance: Dwarves, Hirsutes, And Castrati As Idealized Anatomical Anomalies, Touba Ghadessi
Portraits Of Human Monsters In The Renaissance: Dwarves, Hirsutes, And Castrati As Idealized Anatomical Anomalies, Touba Ghadessi
Monsters, Prodigies, and Demons: Medieval and Early Modern Constructions of Alterity
At the center of this interdisciplinary study are court monsters - dwarves, hirsutes, and misshapen individuals - who, by their very presence, altered Renaissance ethics vis-à-vis anatomical difference, social virtues, and scientific knowledge. These monsters evolved from objects of curiosity, to scientific cases, to legally independent beings. Although many images of and writings about these individuals depict them as jokes of nature or indices of courtly wit, others transcend these categories, combining a vocabulary of courtly self-fashioning with close observations akin to dissections that humanize monsters, while simultaneously stressing their anatomical difference. More importantly, the works examined in this book …
Ailments Of The Soul: Blood Transfusions And The Treatment Of Melancholy In Seventeenth-Century England, Emily Bowlus
Ailments Of The Soul: Blood Transfusions And The Treatment Of Melancholy In Seventeenth-Century England, Emily Bowlus
Theses and Dissertations
The first animal-to-human blood transfusions performed in seventeenth-century England focused on patients suffering from mental diseases such as melancholy. Many physicians diagnosed melancholy as a disease of the body, mind, and soul in which blood played a key role. Philosophy, religion, and folklore helped formulate blood as an elusive yet powerful substance with access to immaterial mind and soul in addition to the body. English physician Richard Lower conducted these first transfusions yet recorded little about his personal theories regarding how melancholy and blood affected the body, mind, and soul. The philosophies of Lower’s colleagues, Thomas Willis and Robert Boyle, …
Peggy Mccracken. The Curse Of Eve, The Wound Of The Hero: Blood, Gender, And Medieval Literature. The Middle Ages Series. University Of Pennsylvania Press, 2003., Shona Harrison
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
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Valeria Finucci, The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, And Castration In The Italian Renaissance. Duke University Press, 2003, Holly A. Crocker
Valeria Finucci, The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, And Castration In The Italian Renaissance. Duke University Press, 2003, Holly A. Crocker
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
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Bonnie Effros, Creating Community With Food And Drink In Merovingian Gaul. New Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, Felice Lifshitz
Bonnie Effros, Creating Community With Food And Drink In Merovingian Gaul. New Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, Felice Lifshitz
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
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Commentary, Linda Lomperis
Commentary, Linda Lomperis
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
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