Insigne Artificium Aristotelis
Title | Insigne Artificium Aristotelis PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 188 |
Release | 1702 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Right Living
Title | Right Living PDF eBook |
Author | Charles E. Rosenberg |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Total Pages | 276 |
Release | 2003-06-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780801871894 |
Rosenberg, Steven Shapin, Jean Silver-Isenstadt, Steven Stowe.
The One-Sex Body on Trial: The Classical and Early Modern Evidence
Title | The One-Sex Body on Trial: The Classical and Early Modern Evidence PDF eBook |
Author | Helen King |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 322 |
Release | 2016-02-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317022386 |
By far the most influential work on the history of the body, across a wide range of academic disciplines, remains that of Thomas Laqueur. This book puts on trial the one-sex/two-sex model of Laqueur's Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud through a detailed exploration of the ways in which two classical stories of sexual difference were told, retold and remade from the mid-sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Agnodike, the 'first midwife' who disguises herself as a man and then exposes herself to her potential patients, and Phaethousa, who grows a beard after her husband leaves her, are stories from the ancient world that resonated in the early modern period in particular. Tracing the reception of these tales shows how they provided continuity despite considerable change in medicine, being the common property of those on different sides of professional disputes about women's roles in both medicine and midwifery. The study reveals how different genres used these stories, changing their characters and plots, but always invoking the authority of the classics in discussions of sexual identity. The study raises important questions about the nature of medical knowledge, the relationship between texts and observation, and the understanding of sexual difference in the early modern world beyond the one-sex model.
Catalogues of Sales
Title | Catalogues of Sales PDF eBook |
Author | Sotheby's (Firm) |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 116 |
Release | 1989-01-23 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
International Rare Book Prices
Title | International Rare Book Prices PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 266 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Books |
ISBN |
Angelo Poliziano's Lamia
Title | Angelo Poliziano's Lamia PDF eBook |
Author | Angelus Politianus |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004185909 |
This book presents the first English translation of an important Renaissance Latin text: Angelo Poliziano s Lamia, an opening oration to a 1492 course at the University of Florence that amounts to a rethinking of the mission and nature of philosophy. An edition of the Latin text is also offered, as are four contextualizing studies.
Practice and Theory in the Italian Renaissance Workshop
Title | Practice and Theory in the Italian Renaissance Workshop PDF eBook |
Author | Christina Neilson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 367 |
Release | 2019-07-18 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1107172853 |
Verrocchio worked in an extraordinarily wide array of media and used unusual practices of making to express ideas.