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Book The Pentagram as a Medical Symbol  An Iconological Study   With Illustrations

Download or read book The Pentagram as a Medical Symbol An Iconological Study With Illustrations written by Jan SCHOUTEN (of Rotterdam.) and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pentagram as a Medical Symbol

Download or read book The Pentagram as a Medical Symbol written by Jan Schouten and published by Brill. This book was released on 1968 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The five-pointed star drawn in an unbroken line is the subject of the present study. During the 16th century until into the 17th century the pentagram was a well-known medical emblem; nowadays it is almost completely forgotten. This is a stimulating book with a valuable collection of forty-one illlustrations (J.K. Crellin in Medical History April 1971). ... interesting and carefully illustrated little book ... Much interesting information is presented ... (Thomas R. Forbes in Journal of the History of Medicine 24, 1969).

Book The pentagram as a medical symbol

Download or read book The pentagram as a medical symbol written by J. Schouten and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pentagram as a Medical Symbol

Download or read book The Pentagram as a Medical Symbol written by Jan Schouten and published by BRILL. This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The five-pointed star drawn in an unbroken line is the subject of the present study. During the 16th century until into the 17th century the pentagram was a well-known medical emblem; nowadays it is almost completely forgotten.

Book Bibliography of the History of Medicine

Download or read book Bibliography of the History of Medicine written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Appearance of Witchcraft

Download or read book The Appearance of Witchcraft written by Charles Zika and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 2008 Katharine Briggs Award. For centuries the witch has been a powerful figure in the European imagination; but the creation of this figure has been hidden from our view. Charles Zika’s groundbreaking study investigates how the visual image of the witch was created in late fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe. He charts the development of the witch as a new visual subject, showing how the traditional imagery of magic and sorcery of medieval Europe was transformed into the sensationalist depictions of witches in the pamphlets and prints of the sixteenth century. This book shows how artists and printers across the period developed key visual codes for witchcraft, such as the cauldron and the riding of animals. It demonstrates how influential these were in creating a new iconography for representing witchcraft incorporating themes such as the power of female sexuality, male fantasy, moral reform, divine providence and punishment, the superstitions of non-Christian peoples and the cannibalism of the new world. Lavishly illustrated and encompassing in its approach, The Appearance of Witchcraft is the first systematic study of the visual representation of witchcraft in the later fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It will give the reader a unique insight into how the image of the witch evolved in the early modern world.

Book Current Catalog

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  • Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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  • Release : 1968
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  • Pages : 924 pages

Download or read book Current Catalog written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.

Book The Long Life of Magical Objects

Download or read book The Long Life of Magical Objects written by Allegra Iafrate and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a series of powerful artifacts associated with King Solomon via legendary or extracanonical textual sources. Tracing their cultural resonance throughout history, art historian Allegra Iafrate delivers exciting insights into these objects and interrogates the ways in which magic manifests itself at a material level. Each chapter focuses on a different Solomonic object: a ring used to control demons; a mysterious set of bottles that constrain evil forces; an endless knot or seal with similar properties; the shamir, known for its supernatural ability to cut through stone; and a flying carpet that can bring the sitter anywhere he desires. Taken together, these chapters constitute a study on the reception of the figure of Solomon, but they are also cultural biographies of these magical objects and their inherent aesthetic, morphological, and technical qualities. Thought-provoking and engaging, Iafrate’s study shows how ancient magic artifacts live on in our imagination, in items such as Sauron’s ring of power, Aladdin’s lamp, and the magic carpet. It will appeal to historians of art, religion, folklore, and literature.

Book Exorcising our Demons  Magic  Witchcraft and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe

Download or read book Exorcising our Demons Magic Witchcraft and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe written by Charles Zika and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of sixteen essays deals with the role of magic, religion and witchcraft in European culture, 1450-1650, and the critical role of the visual in that culture. It covers the relationship of humanism and magic; the intersection of religious ritual, orthodoxy and power; the discursive links between the visual language of witchcraft and contemporary anxieties about sexuality and savagery. The introductory chapter urges us to exorcise our tendency to reduce historical experiences of the demonic to forms of unreason created in a distant past. Only then can we understand the role of the demonic in our historical definition of the self and the other. Richly illustrated with 112 images, the book will interest historians and art historians.

Book Public Health Service Publication

Download or read book Public Health Service Publication written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Imago and Contemplatio in the Visual Arts and Literature  1400   1700

Download or read book Imago and Contemplatio in the Visual Arts and Literature 1400 1700 written by Stijn Bussels and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-01-22 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains twenty-four essays, which, in their subjects and methodology, pay tribute to the scholarship of Walter S. Melion. The contributions are grouped under three categories: “Devotion,” “Art and Image Theory,” and “Vision and Contemplation.” The Devotion section addresses votive practices, theological theory and polemic literature. The Art and Image Theory section focuses on Jesuit image theory, the reflexive dimension of works, and artists’ reflections on the function of images. Finally, the Vision and Contemplation section discusses the ‘early modern eye’ as a tool for thoughtful, prolonged looking to ascertain visual wit, deception, self-assessment and friendship, sacred and profane allegories.

Book National Library of Medicine Current Catalog

Download or read book National Library of Medicine Current Catalog written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Library of the National Gallery of Canada

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the National Gallery of Canada written by National Gallery of Canada. Library and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Book Exchange

Download or read book The Book Exchange written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Library of the National Gallery of Canada  Mah

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the National Gallery of Canada Mah written by National Gallery of Canada. Library and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book General Catalogue of Printed Books

Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: