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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 January 2024
...John Jeffries Martin; Manuela Bragagnolo From the late Middle Ages through the eighteenth century, the science of physiognomy played a central role in the intellectual life of what we might call “the long Renaissance.” Indeed, it did much to shape both the portrayal and the understanding...
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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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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (1): 103–130.
Published: 01 January 2015
...John Jeffries Martin In early modern Europe, judges read the bodies of victims and suspects through a variety of lenses shaped by popular beliefs, Renaissance notions of physiognomy, and by the study of medicine, classical rhetoric, and natural law theory. This article explores the writings...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 165–201.
Published: 01 January 2024
... has since then challenged art historians’ interpretation of Goya's true intentions. Discussions have delved into whether the painting was meant to be a “caricature” of its subjects. This article revisits this problem by historicizing the debate on caricature in relation to the revival of physiognomy...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 57–87.
Published: 01 January 2024
... portraits reveal, for instance, “Probable signs of a woman who really loves you” and “Probable signs of a woman who is unfaithful to you.” 96 Spadon's late collection of hypothetical figures based on physiognomy, chiromancy, and metoposcopy brings to the fore the intrinsic nature of these divinatory...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 611–613.
Published: 01 September 2022
... / January 2024 Physiognomy was, as is well known, one of the most influential disciplines of the Renaissance. Based on the interpretation of bodily signs to read inner moral and intellectual inclinations, physiognomy developed in the West from the twelfth century and quickly acquired the status...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 403–405.
Published: 01 May 2022
... by Manuela Bragagnolo and John Jeffries Martin Volume 54 / Number 1 / January 2024 Physiognomy was, as is well known, one of the most influential disciplines of the Renaissance. Based on the interpretation of bodily signs to read inner moral and intellectual inclinations, physiognomy developed...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 33–56.
Published: 01 January 2024
... of physiognomy and efforts to read the body of the accused, see John Jeffries Martin, “Francesco Casoni and the Rhetorical Forensics of the Body,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 45, no. 1 (2015): 103–30, at 106–8; and Bragagnolo, “I segni della colpa,” as well as “Visual Judgment.” Sara Parini...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 113–135.
Published: 01 January 2024
... and Physicians on the Scientific Validity of Latin Physiognomy, 1200–1500,” Early Science and Medicine 12, no. 3 (2007): 285–312, at 293. 29 Martin Del Rio, Investigations into Magic , ed. and trans. P. G. Maxwell-Stuart (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000), bk. 4, “Divination,” 171...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (1): 1–38.
Published: 01 January 2001
... in individualized portraits, by Dürer, Mostaert, and others), artists
present the details of African appearance—hair, physiognomy—with an
accuracy so exceptional that it has sometimes suggested to modern audi-
ences the potential of an unchanging racial identity.7 Yet...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 203–216.
Published: 01 January 2024
...: Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine . Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science, vol. 30. Leiden: Brill, 2020. x, 355 pp., 2 color and 8 black-and-white illus. Hardvover, ebook. Devriese, Lisa, ed. The Body as a Mirror of the Soul: Physiognomy from Antiquity to the Renaissance...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (2): 263–284.
Published: 01 May 2021
..., these mandylions allowed direct access to a countenance of arresting vitality and unique physiognomy. Their frontal address gives the sensation of a face staring out of its frame. It is defined by an elongated nose, darkened shadows forming the shape of the brow above the eyes, subtle lips, and hair that falls...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (1): 99–120.
Published: 01 January 2013
..., antipodal pressures exerted themselves
on the interface of the spiritual and physical worlds: the physical became
more suffused with the spiritual, and the spiritual became more untrace-
able in the physical. So we have, on the one hand, medicinal tracts invest-
ing humoral physiognomy with spiritual...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 137–163.
Published: 01 January 2024
..., sometimes in such great quantity, that all the entrails of the lower abdomen bathe in blood, which happens following falls from a height, kicks, or blows with a stick or other violent acts. If the science of physiognomy posited a relationship between outward signs and inner disposition, forensic...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (2): 325–346.
Published: 01 May 2010
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are the repositories of stories, because every sort of person ends up there to
get cleaned, from various areas, of diverse apparel, of strange languages, of
hideous mugs, of ugly physiognomies, and of truth and falsehood anyone
[who comes] brings a big/heavy load [e di verità e di bugie ciascuno ne porta
un...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (1): 159–195.
Published: 01 January 2015
... does include at least one
woman, no attempt is made — through hairstyle, dress, or physiognomy — to identify
her as the mother. The loss of the central section of the fresco also makes it impossible
to definitively identify the father.
44 On the connection between Mary of Jerusalem...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 255–277.
Published: 01 May 2017
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the knightly male body through the lens of physiognomy, in order to parse
the way violent male subjectivity is linked to the body’s physicality, embody-
ing a form of masculinity that Yvonne Tasker calls “musculinity.”35 This pro-
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cess...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 253–284.
Published: 01 May 2022
... is attributed to the “aguesté” [acuteness] of its sight (154r). In these examples, alphabetical order and the order of species’ importance combine neatly with physiognomy. Yet, elsewhere etymologies sit awkwardly because Corbechon leaves links unexplained. Garlic's name is explained thus—“ailet est ainsi...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (1): 79–112.
Published: 01 January 2001
... development in the heartland of the
former Carolingian Empire and its subsequent spread through conquest,
colonization, and acculturation.
This is not to say that the Franks did not notice physiognomy or
skin color, and indeed at first glance many of the Roland ’s...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (1): 113–146.
Published: 01 January 2001
... of analysis find a
natural point of overlap in exploring the cultural work of the Saracens,
whose dark skin and diabolical physiognomy were the Western Middle
Ages’ most familiar, most exorbitant embodiment of racial alterity.3 Most
scholarship on Saracens has been...
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