TY  - BOOK
AU  - Porter,Martin
TI  - Windows of the soul: physiognomy in European culture 1470-1780 
T2  - Oxford historical monographs
SN  - 9780191534836
AV  - BF851 .P67 2005eb
U1  - 138.0940903 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
KW  - Physiognomy
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - Philosophical anthropology
KW  - Religious thought
KW  - Theology
KW  - Education
KW  - Art
KW  - Facial expression
KW  - Medicine
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Books
KW  - history
KW  - Facial Expression
KW  - History, 17th Century
KW  - History, Early Modern 1451-1600
KW  - Physiognomonie
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Anthropologie philosophique
KW  - Pensée religieuse
KW  - Théologie
KW  - Éducation
KW  - Physionomie
KW  - Médecine
KW  - 17e siècle
KW  - physiognomy
KW  - aat
KW  - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Fysiognomiek
KW  - gtt
KW  - Cultuurgeschiedenis
KW  - Civilisation
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - gtlm
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-345) and index; 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
N2  - 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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