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Hartnell, Jack, Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages, Londres, Wellcome Collection, 2018, 384 pp.
- Resum
- This book is an introduction to the medicine and art of the medieval body. Taking its lead from medieval understandings of the human form, each of its chapters takes a different element of the body as its subject, from the head, senses, heart, and stomach to skin, bones, blood, and feet. Explaining the medical function and visual treatment of these individual parts within broader medieval therapeutic and artistic worlds, the book's chapters together put forward anatomised medieval bodies as a gateway onto medieval society, considering the ways it evoked, idolised, and distorted the body's forms. Presenting long-standing traditions in the study of medieval medicine and art alongside cutting-edge historical research, the book maps the medieval body as both subject and object: from anatomical diagrams in illuminated manuscripts to saintly bones clothed in the golden skin of medieval reliquaries. Seen this way, objects and ideas from the Middle Ages can be bound tightly together into a complete corpus, encompassing contemporary attitudes to life, death and art.
- Matèries
- Història de l'art
Història de la medicina
Medicina - Cirurgia i anatomia
- Notes
- Trad. it.: Corpi medievali: la vita, la morte e l'arte, Torí, Einaudi (La biblioteca, 49), 2019, xiii+369 pp.
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