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Book Representing Infirmity

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Henderson
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2020-11-17
  • ISBN : 1000220311
  • Pages : 275 pages

Download or read book Representing Infirmity written by John Henderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Representing Infirmity

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Henderson
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2020-11-18
  • ISBN : 1000220117
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Representing Infirmity written by John Henderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Plague  Towns and Monarchy in Early Modern France

Download or read book Plague Towns and Monarchy in Early Modern France written by Neil Murphy and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-24 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element examines the emergence of comprehensive plague management systems in early modern France. While the historiography on plague argues that the plague of Provence in the 1720s represented the development of a new and 'modern' form of public health care under the control of the absolutist monarchy, it shows that the key elements in this system were established centuries earlier because of the actions of urban governments. It moves away from taking a medical focus on plague to examine the institutions that managed disease control in early modern France. In doing so, it seeks to provide a wider context of French plague care to better understand the systems used at Provence in the 1720s. It shows that the French developed a polycentric system of plague care which drew on the input of numerous actors combat the disease.

Book Ageism  second edition

Download or read book Ageism second edition written by Todd D. Nelson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-06-02 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Book Fiji

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Herman De Ricci
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1875
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book Fiji written by James Herman De Ricci and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World

Download or read book Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World written by Lori Jones and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Fiji  Our New Province in the South Seas     With Two Maps

Download or read book Fiji Our New Province in the South Seas With Two Maps written by James Herman DE RICCI and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Saints  Miracles  and Social Problems in Italian Renaissance Art

Download or read book Saints Miracles and Social Problems in Italian Renaissance Art written by Diana Bullen Presciutti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Elite Women and the Italian Wars  1494   1559

Download or read book Elite Women and the Italian Wars 1494 1559 written by Susan Broomhall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Botticelli Past and Present

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ana Debenedetti
  • Publisher : UCL Press
  • Release : 2019-01-08
  • ISBN : 178735461X
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book Botticelli Past and Present written by Ana Debenedetti and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Ohio Nisi Prius and General Term Reports

Download or read book Ohio Nisi Prius and General Term Reports written by Ohio. Courts of Common Pleas and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of the Heavens

Download or read book The Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of the Heavens written by Francis B. Harris and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Other Side of Infirmity

Download or read book The Other Side of Infirmity written by Monica Ellis and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The woman had lived a secretive life of pain and had managed to mask her pain through suppression until one day, all of the pain surfaced and manifested itself through infirmity. At the young age of twenty-five, she was threatening to have a heart attack. Through the support of a counselor and a cardiologist, she finally found the courage to face her demons and confront her past so that she could begin her journey of healing. Getting to the other side of infirmity was no easy feat, but through divine inspiration, she found the strength and the wisdom to take the necessary steps to have her infirmities resolved. From miracle to miracle, she climbed higher and higher to her destiny and found herself in the place of ministering healing to those with spiritual, emotional, and physical ailments. All people dealing with pain and seeking healing will benefit from reading this novel and applying these biblical principles to their lives. Come along on this journey to reach the final destination: Healed, and discover what life is like on the other side of infirmity.

Book Census of India  1921  Hyderabad  State

Download or read book Census of India 1921 Hyderabad State written by India. Census Commissioner and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of the Institute of Actuaries

Download or read book Journal of the Institute of Actuaries written by Institute of Actuaries (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members issued with v. 35-46 with separate paging.

Book Victorian Year book

    Book Details:
  • Author : Victoria. Government statist
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1875
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1098 pages

Download or read book Victorian Year book written by Victoria. Government statist and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 1098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Census of India  1911

    Book Details:
  • Author : India. Census Commissioner
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1913
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 362 pages

Download or read book Census of India 1911 written by India. Census Commissioner and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: