Bodily extremities : preoccupations with the human body in early modern European culture / edited by Florike Egmond and Robert Zwijnenberg.

"First published 2003 by Ashgate Publishing."--Title page verso.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Skin and the search for the interior: the representation of flaying in the art and anatomy of the Cinquecento / Daniela Bohde -- 'Ogni pittore dipinge sé ; on Leonardo da Vinci's Saint John the Baptist / Robert Zwijnenberg --The repulsive body: images of torture in seventeenth-century Naples / Harald Hendrix -- Execution, dissection, pain and infamy: a morphological investigation / Florike Egmond -- Dissecting quaresmeprenant; Rabelais' representation of the human body: a rhetorical approach / Paul J. Smith -- Reading new world bodies / Peter Mason -- Physicians' and inquisitors' stories? Circumcision and Crypto-Judaism in sixteenth-eighteenth-century Spain / José Pardo Tomás -- The expression of pain in the later Middle ages: deliverance, acceptance and infamy / Esther Cohen.

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