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Vesalius and the Languages of Anatomy
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (1): 1–9.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Valeria Finucci In 1543 Andreas Vesalius published his landmark work of anatomy, On the Fabric of the Human Body , which delved inside the human body to see what made it work. Vesalius’s illustrations of body parts were based on what could be seen with the eyes through the practice of dissection...
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They Shall No More Be Remembered by Their Name: Cartography, Anatomy, and the Renaissance Eponym
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (1): 11–40.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Jonathan Sawday This article explores the relationship between anatomy and geography by examining the creation of “toponymical eponyms” to name both geographical and anatomical features in the period ca. 1500 – ca. 1700. The manufacture of an eponymic system to classify and catalogue features...
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Teaching Anatomy in Post-Vesalian Padua: An Analysis of Student Notes
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (1): 61–78.
Published: 01 January 2018
... Falloppia. These student notes, which have not yet been explored — or indeed known to exist — show, among other things, the outstanding importance of anatomical demonstrations on animals and of private anatomies for a small circle of students. They highlight the prominent place that anatomists accorded...
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 9. Pieter Camper, On the Connexion between the Science of Anatomy and The Arts of Drawing, Painting, Statuary, &c. &c . (London, 1794), plate 1. Source: Wellcome Collection, London.
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Figure 10. Camper, On the Connexion between the Science of Anatomy and the Arts of Drawing, Painting, Statuary &c. &c. , plate 3. Source: Wellcome Collection, London.
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1538, A Year of Vesalian Innovation
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (1): 41–59.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Vivian Nutton In 1538 Vesalius issued two complementary works for students, Tabulae sex anatomicae ( Six Anatomical Plates ) and the Institutionum anatomicae secundum Galeni sententiam libri quatuor ( Principles of Anatomy according to the Opinion of Galen ). The former is well known, the latter...
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Midwifery Anatomized: Vesalius, Dissection, and Reproductive Authority in Early Modern Italy
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (1): 79–104.
Published: 01 January 2018
... and the processes of reproduction were contested. A close examination of the use of anatomy, both rhetorical and real, in the Fabrica , in male-authored midwifery manuals, and in the formal regulation of midwifery in seventeenth-century Italy reveals the ways in which authority and anatomy were contested in early...
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The Compounded Body: Bodily Knowledge Production in the Works of Andreas Vesalius and Edmund Spenser
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (1): 153–182.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Amanda Taylor The sixteenth century witnessed the publication of landmark texts on anatomy and allegory: De humani corporis fabrica or On the Fabric of the Human Body by Andreas Vesalius in 1543 and The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, published first in 1590. Each of these texts has received...
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The Organ of Organs: Vesalius and the Wonders of the Human Hand
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (1): 105–124.
Published: 01 January 2018
..., Vesalius stresses time and again the old Aristotelian and Galenic idea that the possession of hands is the mark of biological superiority over animals, as well as the crucial role played by the collaboration between sight and touch in both anatomy and clinical medicine. Copyright © 2018 Duke University...
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Vesalius among the Surgeons
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (1): 125–151.
Published: 01 January 2018
... texts associated with Hippocrates, Galen, and Oribasius, and more recent ones by Giovanni di Vigo and Jean Tagault, the visual archive conveyed information about the treatment of fractures and dislocations, promoted a view of anatomy as medically useful, and helped to organize the medical field...
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Visual Judgment: Physiognomy, Law, Medicine, and Art in Sixteenth-Century Venice
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 9–32.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Manuela Bragagnolo Sixteenth-century Venice was a creative lab in which physiognomy was undergoing major transformation. The development of art theory, especially the theory of proportions, as well as a new attention to direct observation, parallel to developments in anatomy, decisively enriched...
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The Restless Orders of Nature: Multispecies Classification in Jean Corbechon's Livre des propriétés des choses
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 253–284.
Published: 01 May 2022
... the formation of analogies between beings, especially in terms of anatomy and modes of motion, reproduction, combat, and nutrition. Visual tools, including image grids, express groupings, and the etymologies of beings’ names gloss their properties and create links to human life. Ultimately, a restless...
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The Diseased Body: Resources for Scholarly Inquiry in the Duke University History of Medicine Collections
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 589–610.
Published: 01 September 2008
... as a distinguished surgeon and medical human-
ist at Duke drove much of his activity as an assiduous collector of rare and
important landmark medical texts.3 A strong focus on the history of West-
ern medicine, especially surgery, anatomy, and academic medicine, makes
this collection a particularly rich...
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Call for Submissions
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (2): 451–453.
Published: 01 May 2016
... us
about the public consumption of bibles? This special issue solicits essays on
early biblical readers, asking what the bibles they used tell us about biblical
reception, English religion, and literature.
Deadline for submission of manuscripts: July 1, 2016
The Languages of Anatomy...
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Flame into Being: Spirits, Soul, and the Physiology of Early Modern Devotion
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 141–165.
Published: 01 January 2016
... ardent.1
These remarkable words come from the 1555 edition of Melanchthon’s com-
mentary on Aristotle’s De anima. Melanchthon had first published a version
of this in 1540. He significantly revised it, however, in 1552, in the light of
Andreas Vesalius’s seminal anatomy textbook, De humani...
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Call for Submissions
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (3): 669–671.
Published: 01 September 2016
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The Languages of Anatomy
Edited by Valeria Finucci
Volume 48 / Number 1 / January 2018
In 1543 Andreas Vesalius published his landmark work of anatomy, On
the Fabric of the Human Body, which delved inside of the human body to
see what made it work. Vesalius’s illustrations of body parts were based...
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“A dish fit for the gods”: Mexica Sacrifice in De Bry, Las Casas, and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (1): 93–115.
Published: 01 January 2011
... the religious “pulpit” to join the
masses ex cathedra in the marketplace, where Caesar’s body is laid out much
like a corpse in an anatomy theater, his wounds and inert body displayed as
a spectacle of observation and disciplinary order, no longer invoking sacrifice
but murder and execution. As Robert...
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Moralizing Apparel in Early Modern London: Popular Literature, Sermons, and Sartorial Display
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (3): 571–595.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and Early Modern Studies / 39.3 / 2009
The complaint against clothes in popular literature
Philip Stubbes’s Anatomie of Abuses, first published in 1583, is an important
text for the way it lodges particular complaints against those who wore fash-
ionable attire and for the ways in which it reveals...
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Goya, Portraiture, and the (Impossible) Art of Deciphering Faces
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 165–201.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Figure 9. Pieter Camper, On the Connexion between the Science of Anatomy and The Arts of Drawing, Painting, Statuary, &c. &c . (London, 1794), plate 1. Source: Wellcome Collection, London. ...
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Macrobius's Foreskin
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 7–31.
Published: 01 January 2016
... the uncircum-
cised member and the “husk” and “kernel” of grain crops.29 One fourteenth-
century English anatomy even calls the prepuce a “husk.”30 The layering of
the penis — like the supposed penetrability of the female form — makes it
morphologically similar to the husk/kernel figuration by which...
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