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== Books of the Body: Anatomical Ritual and Renaissance Learning (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1999) == | == Books of the Body: Anatomical Ritual and Renaissance Learning (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1999) == | ||
'''quodlibetarian model''': | |||
academic theatre, in which someone discourses on a dissection with others watching | |||
title page woodcuts in 15-16c editions of Mondino dei Liuzzi's ''Anatomie'' showing dissections: lector (holding book or standing above body, pointing), sector (dissector), ostensor (translating text into vernacular, indicating body parts to sector) and cadaver (12-9) | |||
* prominence of book in lector's hands increases with time | |||
* "scission between the theoretical activity of the physician-anatomist and the practical example directed toward an empirical examination of the cadaver" (19) | |||
* despite text's emphasis on actual dissections, it repeats some mistakes of Galen and Avicenna, showing that "the anatomy lesson ... turns out to be little more than a ritual to celebrate the ancient classical authorities on the subject thruogh a reading of their texts" (20) | |||
* "person of the physician anatomist ... becomes merely a student of texts" and "the dissection of the cadaver by the ''sector'' becomes a ritualized exercise void of any significant investigative aim" (20) | |||
Revision as of 18:50, 30 March 2011
Books of the Body: Anatomical Ritual and Renaissance Learning (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1999)
quodlibetarian model:
academic theatre, in which someone discourses on a dissection with others watching
title page woodcuts in 15-16c editions of Mondino dei Liuzzi's Anatomie showing dissections: lector (holding book or standing above body, pointing), sector (dissector), ostensor (translating text into vernacular, indicating body parts to sector) and cadaver (12-9)
- prominence of book in lector's hands increases with time
- "scission between the theoretical activity of the physician-anatomist and the practical example directed toward an empirical examination of the cadaver" (19)
- despite text's emphasis on actual dissections, it repeats some mistakes of Galen and Avicenna, showing that "the anatomy lesson ... turns out to be little more than a ritual to celebrate the ancient classical authorities on the subject thruogh a reading of their texts" (20)
- "person of the physician anatomist ... becomes merely a student of texts" and "the dissection of the cadaver by the sector becomes a ritualized exercise void of any significant investigative aim" (20)