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Elements in the Renaissance Ser.: French Disease in Renaissance Italy : Representation and Experience by John Henderson (2024, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-101009236334
ISBN-139781009236331
eBay Product ID (ePID)22068552502
Product Key Features
Number of Pages75 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameFrench Disease in Renaissance Italy : Representation and Experience
SubjectInternal Medicine, Europe / General
Publication Year2024
TypeTextbook
AuthorJohn Henderson
Subject AreaHistory, Medical
SeriesElements in the Renaissance Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.2 in
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingThe
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal614.5472094509031
Table Of ContentIntroduction; 1. Pox and chronicles; 2. Pox and medicine: theory and practice; 3. Pox and patients; 4. Pox and prostitution; 5. Pox, religion and St Job; Conclusion; Bibliography.
SynopsisThis Element provides a fresh approach to the representation and experience of the French Disease, by reassessing a wide range of textual and visual sources through the lens of contemporary medical ideas. It analyses how knowledge about the Great Pox was transmitted to a literate and also a wider public through performance and the circulation of popular prints. Chronicles, satirical and moralistic poems and plays about prostitutes, along with autobiographical accounts, described symptoms and the experience of patients, reflecting how non-medical men and women understood the nature of this terrible new disease and its profound physical and psychological impact. The second major theme is how the French Disease was represented visually. Woodcuts and broadsheets showing the moral and physical decline of courtesans are analysed together with graphic medical illustrations of symptoms and their treatment together with images of the diseased body of St Job, patron saint of the French Disease., This Element provides an approach to the representation and experience of the French Disease. It analyses how knowledge about the Great Pox was transmitted to a literate and a wider public through performance and the circulation of popular prints. The second theme is how the French Disease was represented visually.
LC Classification NumberRC201.6.I8H4 2024
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