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Darrera modificació: 2017-12-11
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Westermann, Simone, "Spätmittelalterliche Badekultur: Der badende Körper und seine Visualisierung in den illustrierten ‚Tacuina sanitatis‘", dins: Huber-Rebenich, Gerlinde - Rohr, Christian - Stolz, Michael (eds.), Wasser in der mittelalterlichen Kultur: Gebrauch - Wahrnehmung - Symbolik = Water in Medieval Culture: Uses, Perceptions, and Symbolism, Berlín, De Gruyter (Das Mittelalter: Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung, 4), 2017, pp. 305-318.
- Resum
- This article discusses the practice and theory of bathing and their visualisation within the context of late-medieval Northern Italian courts. Through an analysis of the fourteenth-century illustrations of bathing found in the ‘Tacuinum sanitatis' (health manual), I argue that the depictions of bathing, with its positive, erotic and pleasant connotations, helped to usher in a new and aestheticized view of the naked body, which laid the foundations for the great interest in bathing imagery that characterizes the following centuries. The ‘Tacuinum sanitatis' was written by the Iraqi medic Ibn Butlān in the eleventh century and translated into Latin around 1200. The earliest fully illuminated versions, five in total, can be dated back to the late fourteenth century and originated in the courtly circles of Milan and Verona. The aim of the article is to show how these early illustrated versions of Ibn Butlān's text not only testify to a heightened interest in (Islamic) medical treatises within the political centres of Northern Italy, but also how this interest reflects a complex image of the body as an entity which includes medical, political, and erotic aspects. In connection to the literary culture of the time, the visualization of the practice of bathing exemplifies the striking plurality of meanings entailed in the representation of the body in the fourteenth century.
- Matèries
- Medicina - Dietètica i higiene
Banys
Manuscrits
Il·lustracions
- URL
- https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110437430-022
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