Originally published: Oxford : Berg Publishers, 2010. Contributor, Susan Broomhall, is a resident of W.A. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
(from table of contents) Introduction / Margaret L. King. Renaissance selves, Renaissance bodies / Lianne McTavish -- Why me? Why now? How? The body in health and disease / Margaret Healy -- Sexuality: of man, woman, and beastly business / Katherine Crawford -- The body in/ as text: medical knowledge and technologies in the Renaissance / Susan Broomhall -- The common body: Renaissance popular beliefs / Karen Raber -- Beauty and concepts of the ideal / Mary Rogers -- The marked body as otherness in Renaissance Italian culture / Patrizia Bettella -- The marked body: the witches, Lady Macbeth, and the relics / Diane Purkiss -- Fashioning civil bodies and "others": cultural representations / Margaret Healy -- Renaissance selves, Renaissance bodies / Margaret L. King.
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