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Eighteenth-Century Archives of the Body

Conference Proceedings of the International Workshop Archives of the Body. Medieval to Early Modern, Cambridge University, 8-9 Sept. 2011

edited by Elena TADDIA


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1. Introduction. The body as an archive
by Elena Taddia
2. The Eye of the Surgeon: Bodily Images from the Collection of the Royal Academy of Surgery of Paris, 1731–93
Jérôme Van Wijland


3. Devotion and Healing. The sick, miraculously cured, examined Body of Sister Maria Vittoria Centurione in Eighteenth-Century Genoa

Paolo Fontana

4. The ‘Polite’ Face: The Social Meanings Attached to Facial Appearance in Early Eighteenth-Century Didactic Journals
Kathryn Woods

5. Sexing the body. The case of Giacoma Foroni
Catriona Seth

6. An Archive of Sins: Experimenting with the Body and Building a Knowledge of the ‘Low’ in José Ignacio Eyzaguirre’s General Confession (1799-1804)
Martín Bowen Silva