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"With wit, wisdom, and a sharp scalpel, Jack Hartnell dissects the medieval body and offers a remedy to our preconceptions. Medieval beliefs about the body were drastically different from ours today: Hair was thought to be a condensation of fumes emitted from the pores, ideas were supposedly committed to memory by being directly imprinted on the brain, and the womb of a goat was believed to function as a contraceptive. But while this medieval medicine now seems archaic, it also made a critical contribution to modern science. Medieval Bodies guides us on a head-to-heel journey through this era's revolutionary advancements and disturbing convictions. We learn about the surgeons who dissected a living man's stomach, then sewed him up again; about the geographers who delineated racial groups by skin color; and about the practice of fasting to gain spiritual renown. Encompassing medicine and mysticism, politics and art-and complete with vivid, full-color illustrations-Medieval Bodies shows us how it felt to live and die a thousand years ago"--

Human medicine --- Aesthetics of art --- History of civilization --- lichaam (van de mens) --- bodies [animal components] --- anno 500-1499 --- Civilization, Medieval --- Medicine, Medieval --- Human body --- Human Body --- History, Medieval --- Medicine in the Arts --- Social aspects --- History

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Human Body. --- Human body in popular culture --- Corps humain dans la culture populaire --- Human body in popular culture. --- human figures [visual works] --- 39 --- 39 Volkenkunde. Zeden en gebruiken. Culturele antropologie --- Volkenkunde. Zeden en gebruiken. Culturele antropologie --- Human body --- Body, Human, in popular culture --- Popular culture --- Social aspects --- Philosophical anthropology --- History of civilization --- Antiquity --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1999 --- Social aspects. --- Corps humain --- History --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- cultuurgeschiedenis --- Image du corps --- Culture populaire --- Anthropologie --- Aspect médical --- Aspect médical

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Do heads excite a desire to chop them off; a desire to decapitate and take a human life, as anthropologists have suggested? The contributors to this book are fascinated by ‘disembodied heads’, which are pursued in their many medieval and early modern disguises and representations, including the metaphorical. They challenge the question why in medieval and early modern cultures the head was usually considered the most important part of the body, a primacy only contested by the heart for religious reasons. Carefully mapping beliefs, mythologies and traditions concerning the head, the result is an attempt to establish a ‘cultural anatomy’ of the head, which is relevant for cultural historians, art historians and students of the philosophy, art and sciences of the premodern period. Contributors include Barbara Baert, Esther Cohen, Mateusz Kapustka, Arjan R. de Koomen, Robert Mills, Marina Montesano, Scott B. Montgomery, Catrien Santing, Jetze Touber, and Bert Watteeuw.

Head --- Human body --- Social aspects --- Figure drawing --- Skull --- Beheading --- Medicine in Art --- Tête --- Corps humain --- Décapitation --- Médecine dans l'art --- Social aspects. --- History --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- History of civilization --- Head - Social aspects - Congresses --- Human body - Social aspects - Congresses --- Tête --- Décapitation

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"Utilizing an array of both well known and rarely seen sources, Shaping Femininity explores how 16th and 17th-century foundation garments shaped the dressed female body in early modern England and consequently how enduring notions of western femininity were established"--

Foundation garments --- Human body --- Women --- Femininity (Philosophy) --- History --- Social aspects --- Physiology --- Philosophy --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Manufacturing technologies --- History of civilization --- underwear --- corsets --- hoops [shaping garments] --- vrouwengeschiedenis --- kostuumgeschiedenis --- feminine --- women [female humans] --- anno 1500-1799 --- England

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Human body (Philosophy). --- Human body --- Human body. --- Religious aspects. --- ro: ed. by --- ro: with --- Edited by Michael Feher with Ramona Naddaff and Nadia Tazi --- kunst --- kunsttheorie --- anatomie --- lichamelijkheid --- 7.03 --- Genotypic Sex --- Phenotypic Sex --- Sex, Genotypic --- Sex, Phenotypic --- Sex Characteristics --- Sex Determination Analysis --- Religious Beliefs --- Religious Ethics --- Beliefs, Religious --- Ethic, Religious --- Religious Belief --- Art. --- Culture. --- Philosophy. --- Religion. --- Sex. --- 796 <09> --- Sexual Behavior --- Prayer --- Prayers --- Religions --- Spiritual Therapies --- Secularism --- Pharmacy Philosophy --- Philosophical Overview --- Hedonism --- Stoicism --- Overview, Philosophical --- Overviews, Philosophical --- Pharmacy Philosophies --- Philosophical Overviews --- Philosophies --- Philosophies, Pharmacy --- Philosophy, Pharmacy --- Beliefs --- Cultural Background --- Customs --- Background, Cultural --- Backgrounds, Cultural --- Belief --- Cultural Backgrounds --- Cultures --- Custom --- Arts --- 796 <09> Lichamelijke opvoeding. Sport en spel--Geschiedenis van ... --- Lichamelijke opvoeding. Sport en spel--Geschiedenis van ... --- Edited by Michael Feher ; with Ramona Naddaff and Nadia Tazi --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Human body (Philosophy) --- Corps humain --- Corps humain (Philosophie) --- Religious aspects --- Aspect religieux --- Cultural Relativism --- Cultural Relativisms --- Relativism, Cultural --- Relativisms, Cultural --- Art --- Culture --- Philosophy --- Religion --- Sex --- Lichamelijke opvoeding. Sport en spel--Geschiedenis van .. --- Lichamelijke opvoeding. Sport en spel--Geschiedenis van . --- Lichamelijke opvoeding. Sport en spel--Geschiedenis van --- lichaam (van de mens) --- CORPS HUMAIN --- ASPECT SOCIAL --- Ethnologie