Devriese, Lisa (Author)
Physiognomy, the history of racial classifications, and the interplay between natural philosophy, medicine, and ethics. The idea of the body as a mirror of the soul has fascinated mankind throughout history. Being able to see through an individual, and drawing conclusions on their character solely based on a selection of external features, is the subject of physiognomy, and has a long tradition running well into recent times. However, the pre-modern, especially medieval background of this discipline has remained underexplored. The selected case studies in this volume each contribute to a better understanding of the history of physiognomy from antiquity to the Renaissance, and offer discussions on unedited treatises and on the application, development, and reception of this field of knowledge, as well as on visual sources inspired by physiognomic theory.
...MoreReview Sharrona Pearl (2023) Review of "The Body as a Mirror of the Soul: Physiognomy from Antiquity to the Renaissance". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 194-195).
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Leen Spruit;
(2014)
The Origin of the Soul from Antiquity to the Early Modern Era: A Short Introduction
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Lisa Devriese;
(2018)
The Influence of Bodily Changes on the Soul in Medieval Physiognomy
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Teresa Esposito;
(2022)
Ricerche fisiognomiche nel taccuino di Rubens e nella Physiognomonia di della Porta
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Alfonso Paolella;
(2022)
La fisiognomica tra credenza e scienza
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Akasoy, Anna;
Burnett, Charles;
Yoeli-Tlalim, Ronit;
(2008)
Astro-Medicine: Astrology and Medicine, East and West
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Fabrizio Baldassarri;
Andreas Blank;
(2021)
Vegetative Powers: The Roots of Life in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Natural Philosophy
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Danielle Jacquart;
(2017)
L’harmonie des parties du corps entre Moyen Âge et Renaissance
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Delaporte, François;
Meyers, Todd;
(2008)
Anatomy of the Passions
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Chiara Beneduce;
Denise Vincenti;
(2018)
Oeconomia Corporis: The Body’s Normal and Pathological Constitution at the Intersection of Philosophy and Medicine
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Raffaella De Vivo;
(2022)
Emozioni ed immagini della donna nella letteratura classica e nella Humana Physiognomonia di della Porta.
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Couto Ferreira, E.;
(2008)
“Si una mujer tiene la cabeza grande”: fisionomía y carácter femenino en un texto asiriobabilónico
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Éva Vìgh;
(2022)
L’Invidia in letteratura, in arte e in fisiognomica (dellaportiana)
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Laird, Walter Roy;
Roux, Sophie;
(2008)
Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution
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Federico Tognoni;
(2021)
Il volto del fisionomo: un ritratto di Giovan Battista Della Porta
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Isabel Barton;
(2022)
Mining, alchemy, and the changing concept of minerals from antiquity to early modernity
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Elizabeth T. Hurren;
(2021)
Hidden Histories of the Dead: Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research
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Xing Wang;
(2020)
Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body
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Engberg-Pedersen, Troels;
(2010)
Cosmology and Self in the Apostle Paul: The Material Spirit
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Holmes, Brooke;
(2010)
The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece
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Holmes, Brooke;
(2013)
Causality, Agency, and the Limits of Medicine
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