Bodily Extremities : Preoccupations with the Human Body in Early Modern European Culture (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction, Florike Egmond and Robert Zwijnenberg; Skin and search for the interior: the representation of flaying in the art and anatomy of the Cinquecento, Daniela Bohde; Ogni pittore dipinge se: on Leonardo da Vinci's Saint John the Baptist, Robert Zwijnenberg; The repulsive body: images of torture in 17th-century Naples, Harald Hendrix; Pain, punishment, dissection and infamy: a morphological investigation, Florike Egmond; Dissecting Quaresmeprenant: Rabelais' representation of the human body: a rhetorical approach, Paul Smith; Reading New World bodies, Peter Mason; The question of circumcision in the cryptojudaist communities in Spain and the relationship with medical and chirurgical practices, Jose Pardo TomA¡s; The expression of pain in the later Middle Ages: deliverance, acceptance and infamy, Esther Cohen; Index.