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Roman Bodies: Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century Book

Roman Bodies: Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century
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Roman Bodies: Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century, This collection of seventeen essays explores the dramatic changes in Western conceptions of the body, encompassing the cultural shifts that occurred across Empire, religion and science, from antiquity to the eighteenth century., Roman Bodies: Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century
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  • Roman Bodies: Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century
  • Written by author Andrew Hopkins, Maria Wyke
  • Published by British School at Rome, 2005/08/25
  • This collection of seventeen essays explores the dramatic changes in Western conceptions of the body, encompassing the cultural shifts that occurred across Empire, religion and science, from antiquity to the eighteenth century.
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Ch. 1 The body of Rome : introduction 1
Ch. 2 Archetypally Roman? : representing Seneca's ageing body 13
Ch. 3 Circumcision, de-circumcision and self-image : Celsus's 'operations on the penis' 23
Ch. 4 A Roman perspective on circumcision 33
Ch. 5 'In the foreskin of your flesh' : the pure male body in late antiquity 43
Ch. 6 Headhunters of the Roman army 55
Ch. 7 Execution in effigy : severed heads and decapitated statues in imperial Rome 67
Ch. 8 Disabled bodies : the (mis)representation of the lame in antiquity and their reappearance in early Christian and medieval art 85
Ch. 9 Truth, perception and the pagan body in the Roman martyr narratives 99
Ch. 10 The paradoxical body of Saint Agnes 111
Ch. 11 The relic translations of Paschal I : transforming city and cult 123
Ch. 12 Majesty and mortality : attitudes towards the corpse in papal funeral ceremonies 143
Ch. 13 A theatre of cruelty and forgiveness : dissection, institutions and the moral discourse of anatomy in sixteenth-century Rome 157
Ch. 14 Not torments, but delights : Antonio Gallonio's Trattato De Gli Instrumenti Di Martierio of 1591 and its illustrations 167
Ch. 15 Ancient bodies and contested identities in the English College martyrdom cycle, Rome 185
Ch. 16 Secrets of the heart : the role of saintly bodies in the medical discourse of counter-Reformation Rome 201
Ch. 17 Contesting the sacred heart of Jesus in late eighteenth-century Rome 215


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