Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1200-1550

Herausgeber: Givens, Jean A; Touwaide, Alain; Reeds, Karen M

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Produktbeschreibung

Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1200-1550 addresses fundamental questions about the interplay of visual and verbal communication in medieval medicine, pharmacy, and natural history. Analyzing images in works as diverse as herbals, jewellery, surgery manuals, lay health guides, cinquecento paintings, manuscripts of Pliny's Natural History, and Leonardo's notebooks, the essays ask: What counts as medical illustration in the Middle Ages? What purposes and audiences do these illustrations serve? How do images of natural objects, observed phenomena, and theoretical concepts amplify texts and convey complex cultural attitudes? Why do we regard some of these images as "medieval" productions while other exactly contemporary images strike us as typically "early modern" in character?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9780754652960
• ISBN-10: 0754652963
• Artikelnr.: 57049667

Autorenporträt

Jean A. Givens is Associate Professor in History of Art at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA. Karen M. Reeds is an independent scholar in Princeton, New Jersey, USA, affiliated with the Princeton Research Forum and the National Coalition of Independent Scholars. Alain Touwaide is Historian of Sciences at the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Jean A. Givens
Karen M. Reeds
Alain Touwaide; Image
word and medicine in the Middle Ages
Peter Murray Jones; Latin crusaders
Byzantine herbals
Alain Touwaide; The illuminated Tacuinum sanitatis manuscripts from northern Italy ca. 1380-1400: sources
patrons
and the creation of a new pictorial genre
Cathleen Hoeniger; Erudition on display: the 'scientific' illustrations in Pico della Mirandola's manuscript of Pliny the Elder's Natural History
Sarah Blake McHam; Reading and writing the illustrated Tractatus de herbis
1280-1526
Jean A. Givens; Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical studies in Milan: a re-examination of sites and sources
Monica Azzolini; (Hu)moral exemplars: type and temperament in cinquecento painting
Piers D. Britton; Leonardo da Vinci and botanical illustration: nature prints
drawings
and woodcuts ca. 1500
Karen M. Reeds; The uses of realism in early modern illustrated botany
Claudia Swan; Index.