Representing Infirmity

Representing Infirmity
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9781000220117
ISBN-13 : 1000220117
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Synopsis Representing Infirmity by : John Henderson

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.

Plague, Towns and Monarchy in Early Modern France

Plague, Towns and Monarchy in Early Modern France
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Total Pages : 84
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ISBN-10 : 9781009233828
ISBN-13 : 1009233823
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Synopsis Plague, Towns and Monarchy in Early Modern France by : Neil Murphy

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.

Ageism, second edition

Ageism, second edition
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 375
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ISBN-10 : 9780262339759
ISBN-13 : 0262339757
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis Ageism, second edition by : Todd D. Nelson

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

Fiji

Fiji
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Total Pages : 372
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015008737168
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Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Fiji by : James Herman De Ricci

Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World

Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World
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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages : 375
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ISBN-10 : 9781914049095
ISBN-13 : 1914049098
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World by : Lori Jones

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.

Saints, Miracles, and Social Problems in Italian Renaissance Art

Saints, Miracles, and Social Problems in Italian Renaissance Art
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 730
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ISBN-10 : 9781009300841
ISBN-13 : 1009300849
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

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

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.

Elite Women and the Italian Wars, 1494–1559

Elite Women and the Italian Wars, 1494–1559
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 150
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ISBN-10 : 9781009415965
ISBN-13 : 1009415964
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Elite Women and the Italian Wars, 1494–1559 by : Susan Broomhall

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.

Botticelli Past and Present

Botticelli Past and Present
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Publisher : UCL Press
Total Pages : 334
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ISBN-10 : 9781787354616
ISBN-13 : 178735461X
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Botticelli Past and Present by : Ana Debenedetti

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.

Ohio Nisi Prius and General Term Reports

Ohio Nisi Prius and General Term Reports
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Total Pages : 738
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ISBN-10 : OSU:32437011712540
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Synopsis Ohio Nisi Prius and General Term Reports by : Ohio. Courts of Common Pleas