Windows of the soul : physiognomy in European culture 1470-1780 / Martin Porter.

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Porter, Martin (Martin Henry)

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TextSeries: Oxford historical monographsPublication details: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 365 pages) : illustrations, portraitsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780191534836
0191534838
1280905824
9781280905827
9786610905829
6610905827

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Windows of the soul.DDC classification:

138.0940903 22

LOC classification:

BF851 .P67 2005eb

NLM classification:

BF 851

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Contents:

List of Illustrations; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. A Persistent Fisnomical Consciousness c.400 BCE-c.1470 CE; 2. The Bookish Face of Physiognomy in Early Modern Europe; 3. The Troubling Emergence of the 'Egyptian' in Early Modern Europe; 4. The Physiognomy Captured and Lost in a Book; 5. Physiognomating by the Book; 6. Living Graffiti; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Summary: In early modern Europe there was a small group of books on the art of physiognomy which claimed to provide self-knowledge through an interpretation of external features. The authors of these books explained how the eyes, the face, and all of nature's natural bodies became windows of the soul. Dr Porter uses remnants of the highly illustrated and graffitied texts on physiognomy to interpret the way that these books were read and viewed, and trace the changes that took place between. the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of Romanticism. - ;In late fifteenth century Florence, Renaissance h.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-345) and index.

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In early modern Europe there was a small group of books on the art of physiognomy which claimed to provide self-knowledge through an interpretation of external features. The authors of these books explained how the eyes, the face, and all of nature's natural bodies became windows of the soul. Dr Porter uses remnants of the highly illustrated and graffitied texts on physiognomy to interpret the way that these books were read and viewed, and trace the changes that took place between. the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of Romanticism. - ;In late fifteenth century Florence, Renaissance h.

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