Washed and Spiced
Peter Bradshaw, 19 October 1995
The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture
by Jonathan Sawday.
Routledge, 327 pp., £35, May 1995,0 415 04444 8 Show More
by Jonathan Sawday.
Routledge, 327 pp., £35, May 1995,
“... pitiful subjection – promotes a neurotic and defeatist view of power in history and discourse. Jonathan Sawday’s The Body Emblazoned, a monumental study of Renaissance anatomy, is a contribution to this debate. It is an impressive work which investigates the troubled status of the body in the English Renaissance. ... ”
