Bodily Extremities: Preoccupations with the Human Body in Early Modern European Culture
, by Egmond,FlorikeNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780754607267 | 0754607267
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 4/28/2003
A collection of nine interdisciplinary essays looking at the social and cultural construction of the human body. Focusing on extreme, transgressive situations, practices, and their representations, the contributors tackle a wide range of issues about how the body was interpreted and understood in the early modern period.