De Ceglia, Francesco Paolo (Editor)
Brill
Physical Details: 364 pp.
Language: English
When, why and how was it first believed that corpses could reveal ‘signs’ useful for understanding the causes of death and eventually identifying those responsible for it? This book shows how in the late Middle Ages the dead body, which had previously rarely been questioned, became a specific object of investigation by doctors, philosophers, theologians and jurists. The volume sheds new light on the elements of continuity, but also on the effort made to liberate the semantization of the corpse from what were, broadly speaking, necromantic practices, which would eventually merge into forensic medicine.
...MoreReview Katherine D. Watson (2021) Review of "The Body of Evidence: Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine". Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (pp. 604-606).
Chapter Alexander Kästner (2020) Reading Moral Conduct and Physical Characteristics: the Classification of Suicide in Early Modern Europe. In: The Body of Evidence: Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine (pp. 193-223).
Chapter Massimo Galtarossa (2020) Knowledge from Bodies and Resistance to Anatomical Discourse (Padua, 16th–18th Centuries). In: The Body of Evidence: Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine (pp. 175-190).
Chapter Margaret Brannan Lewis (2020) Corpses and Confessions: Forensic Investigation and Infanticide in Early Modern Germany. In: The Body of Evidence: Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine (pp. 224-244).
Chapter Lucia De Frenza; Caterina Tisci (2020) Frightening Whirlpools: Drowning in France in the 18th Century. In: The Body of Evidence: Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine (pp. 270-294).
Chapter Allen Shotwell (2020) Dissection Techniques, Forensics and Anatomy in the 16th Century. In: The Body of Evidence: Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine (pp. 107-118).
Chapter Alan W.H. Bates (2020) Monstrous Exegesis: Opening Up Double Monsters in Early Modern Europe. In: The Body of Evidence: Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine (pp. 119-148).
Chapter Francesco Paolo de Ceglia (2020) Corpses, Evidence and Medical Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age. In: The Body of Evidence: Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine (pp. 1-20).
Chapter Tommaso Duranti (2020) Reading the Corpse in the Late Middle Ages (Bologna, Mid-13th Century–Early 16th Century). In: The Body of Evidence: Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine (pp. 71-104).
Chapter Siena, Kevin P. (2020) Corpses, Contagion and Courage: Fear and the Inspection of Bodies in 17th-Century London. In: The Body of Evidence: Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine (pp. 149-174).
Chapter Francesco Paolo de Ceglia (2020) Saving the Phenomenon: Why Corpses Bled in the Presence of Their Murderer in Early Modern Science. In: The Body of Evidence: Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine (pp. 23-52).
Chapter Diego Carnevale (2020) Visum et Repertum: Medical Doctrine and Criminal Procedures in France and Naples (17th–18th Centuries). In: The Body of Evidence: Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine (pp. 245-269).
Chapter Carmel Ferragud (2020) Unfamiliar Faces: The Identification of Corpses in Late Medieval Valencia. In: The Body of Evidence: Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine (pp. 53-70).
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