Representing Infirmity

Author : John Henderson,Fredrika Jacobs,Jonathan K. Nelson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000220315

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This volume is the first in-depth analysis of how infirm bodies were represented in Italy from c. 1400 to 1650. Through original contributions and methodologies, it addresses the fundamental yet undiscussed relationship between images and representations in medical, religious, and literary texts. Looking beyond the modern category of ‘disease’ and viewing infirmity in Galenic humoral terms, each chapter explores which infirmities were depicted in visual culture, in what context, why, and when. By exploring the works of artists such as Caravaggio, Leonardo, and Michelangelo, this study considers the idealized body altered by diseases, including leprosy, plague, goitre, and cancer. In doing so, the relationship between medical treatment and the depiction of infirmities through miracle cures is also revealed. The broad chronological approach demonstrates how and why such representations change, both over time and across different forms of media. Collectively, the chapters explain how the development of knowledge of the workings and structure of the body was reflected in changed ideas and representations of the metaphorical, allegorical, and symbolic meanings of infirmity and disease. The interdisciplinary approach makes this study the perfect resource for both students and specialists of the history of art, medicine and religion, and social and intellectual history across Renaissance Europe.

Author : John Henderson,Fredrika Jacobs,Jonathan K. Nelson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000220117

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Representing Infirmity by John Henderson,Fredrika Jacobs,Jonathan K. Nelson Pdf

This volume is the first in-depth analysis of how infirm bodies were represented in Italy from c. 1400 to 1650. Through original contributions and methodologies, it addresses the fundamental yet undiscussed relationship between images and representations in medical, religious, and literary texts. Looking beyond the modern category of ‘disease’ and viewing infirmity in Galenic humoral terms, each chapter explores which infirmities were depicted in visual culture, in what context, why, and when. By exploring the works of artists such as Caravaggio, Leonardo, and Michelangelo, this study considers the idealized body altered by diseases, including leprosy, plague, goitre, and cancer. In doing so, the relationship between medical treatment and the depiction of infirmities through miracle cures is also revealed. The broad chronological approach demonstrates how and why such representations change, both over time and across different forms of media. Collectively, the chapters explain how the development of knowledge of the workings and structure of the body was reflected in changed ideas and representations of the metaphorical, allegorical, and symbolic meanings of infirmity and disease. The interdisciplinary approach makes this study the perfect resource for both students and specialists of the history of art, medicine and religion, and social and intellectual history across Renaissance Europe.

Author : Todd D. Nelson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780262339759

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Ageism, second edition by Todd D. Nelson Pdf

Current research and theory from a range of disciplines on ageism, discussing issues from elder abuse to age discrimination against workers, revised and updated. People commonly use age to categorize and stereotype others–even though those who stereotype the elderly are eventually bound to become elderly themselves. Ageism is found cross-culturally, but it is especially prevalent in the United States, where most people regard growing older with depression, fear, and anxiety. Older people in the United States are stigmatized and marginalized, with often devastating consequences. This volume collects the latest theory and research on prejudice against older people, offering perspectives from psychology, nursing, medicine, social work, and other fields. The second edition has been completely updated, with new or extensively revised contributions. The contributors, all experts in their fields, consider issues that range from elder abuse to age discrimination against workers. There has been a relative dearth of research on ageism, perhaps because age prejudice is still considered socially acceptable. This book is still the only one that examines ageism in such detail, from such diverse scholarly perspectives. The contributors discuss the origins and effects of ageism and offer suggestions for how to reduce ageism as the wave of baby boomers heads for old age. Contributors Yoav S. Bergman, Ehud Bodner, Jennifer Barbour, Piers Bayl-Smith, Daphne Blunt Bugental, Maria Clara P. de Paula Couto, Susan T. Fiske, Jeff Greenberg, Barbara Griffin, Jessica A. Hehman, Peter Helm, Sarah H. Kagan, Molly Maxfield, Lynn McDonald, Mary Chase Mize, Joann M. Montepare, Todd D. Nelson, Michael S. North, Amanda Rumsey, Jeff Schimel, Laura Shannonhouse, Dirk Wentura, Susan Krauss Whitbourne

Author : James Herman De Ricci
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Colonization
ISBN : UOM:39015008737168

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Fiji by James Herman De Ricci Pdf

Author : Diana Bullen Presciutti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781009300841

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Saints, Miracles, and Social Problems in Italian Renaissance Art by Diana Bullen Presciutti Pdf

In this book, Diana Bullen Presciutti explores how images of miracles performed by mendicant saints-reviving dead children, redeeming the unjustly convicted, mending broken marriages, quelling factional violence, exorcising the demonically possessed-actively shaped Renaissance Italians' perceptions of pressing social problems related to gender, sexuality, and honor. She argues that depictions of these miracles by artists-both famous (Donatello, Titian) and anonymous-played a critical role in defining and conceptualizing threats to family honor and social stability. Drawing from art history, history, religious studies, gender studies, and sociology, Presciutti's interdisciplinary study reveals how miracle scenes-whether painted, sculpted, or printed-operated as active agents of 'lived religion' and social negotiation in the spaces of the Renaissance Italian city.

Author : Lori Jones,Nükhet Varlık
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781914049095

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Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World by Lori Jones,Nükhet Varlık Pdf

Juxtaposing and interlacing similarities and differences across and beyond the pre-modern Mediterranean world, Christian, Islamic and Jewish healing traditions, the collection highlights and nuances some of the recent critical advances in scholarship on death and disease.

Author : James Herman DE RICCI
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Fiji
ISBN : BL:A0026161561

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Fiji: Our New Province in the South Seas ... With Two Maps by James Herman DE RICCI Pdf

Author : Susan Broomhall,Carolyn James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009415965

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Elite Women and the Italian Wars, 1494–1559 by Susan Broomhall,Carolyn James Pdf

The Element analyses the critical importance of elite women to the conflict conventionally known as the Italian Wars that engulfed much of Europe and the Mediterranean between 1494 and 1559. Through its considered attention to the interventions of women connected to imperial, royal and princely dynasties, the authors show the breadth and depth of the opportunities, roles, impact, and influence that certain women had to shape the course of the conflict in both wartime activities and in peace-making. The work thus expands the ways in which the authors can think about women's participation in war and politics. It makes use of a wide range of sources such as literature, art and material culture, as well as more conventional text forms. Women's voices and actions are prioritized in making sense of evidence and claims about their activities.

Author : Ana Debenedetti,Caroline Elam
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781787354616

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Botticelli Past and Present by Ana Debenedetti,Caroline Elam Pdf

The recent exhibitions dedicated to Botticelli around the world show, more than ever, the significant and continued debate about the artist. Botticelli Past and Present engages with this debate. The book comprises four thematic parts, spanning four centuries of Botticelli’s artistic fame and reception from the fifteenth century. Each part comprises a number of essays and includes a short introduction which positions them within the wider scholarly literature on Botticelli. The parts are organised chronologically beginning with discussion of the artist and his working practice in his own time, moving onto the progressive rediscovery of his work from the late eighteenth to the turn of the twentieth century, through to his enduring impact on contemporary art and design. Expertly written by researchers and eminent art historians and richly illustrated throughout, the broad range of essays in this book make a valuable contribution to Botticelli studies.

Author : Victoria. Government statist
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1098 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Victoria
ISBN : CORNELL:31924094321464

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Victorian Year-book by Victoria. Government statist Pdf

Author : Ontario
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117935242

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A Guide, Agencies, Boards & Commissions, Government of Ontario by Ontario Pdf

Author : Henry Heylyn Hayter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Victoria
ISBN : BL:A0026109975

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Notes on the Colony of Victoria by Henry Heylyn Hayter Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Victoria
ISBN : UCAL:B2912095

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Victorian Year Book by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas Belsham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1818
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021744126

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The Present State of Religious Parties in England, Represented and Improved in a Discourse, Etc by Thomas Belsham Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 966 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3583797

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North western reporter. Second series. N.W. 2d. Cases argued and determined in the courts of Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin by Anonim Pdf