The Body in History, Culture, and the Arts
The Body in History, Culture, and the Arts

Author: Justyna Jajszczok

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-03-27

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 0429559429

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The aim of this book is to explore the body in various historical contexts and to take it as a point of departure for broader historiographical projects. The chapters in the volume present the ways in which the body constitutes a valuable and productive object of historical analysis, especially as a lens through which to trace histories of social, political, and cultural phenomena and processes. More specifically, the authors use the body as a tool for critical re-examination of particular histories of human experience, and of societal and cultural practices, thus contributing to the burgeoning area of body history in terms of both specific case studies as well as historiography in general.

The Munich Kunstkammer
The Munich Kunstkammer

Author: Katharina Pilaski

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9783161521881

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The Munich Kunstkammer was conceived as a central repository of knowledge about the world, and the territory of its founder Albrecht V. Katharina Pilaski Kaliardos focuses on the collection's functions in the larger context of the centralization of princely power and the territory's confessionalization in the wake of the Council of Trent.