Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

Sherman, Claire Richter

ISBN 10: 0295980729 / ISBN 13: 9780295980720

Edité par University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2000

A Very Good copy of this tall-format well-illustrated paperback. Sound binding, clean/unmarked within, with a crease to the top corner of the rear cover. (Not ex-library.) Laid in are two copies of a folding brochure for the exhibition, a separate brochure noted as for mailing to potential classroom groups, and a large Washington Post review of the exhibit dated December 29, 2000. N° de réf. du vendeur 058546

Synopsis :

This text focuses on the hand as a meeting place for matter, mind, and spirit. More than 80 images, dating primarily from the 15th to the 17th centuries, concern the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge from such diverse realms as anatomy, psychology, mathematics, music rhetoric, religions, palmistry, and alchemy. The book also addresses the relationship between the hand and the brain, sensory perception, the rhetoric of gesture, early forms of finger-spelling for the deaf, morality, and spirituality. It reintroduces early modern conceptual frameworks for learning, remembering, and recalling practical and abstract concepts by means of the hand. Throughout the text, images of the hand play a vital role in interpreting the search for achieving knowledge of the self and interpreting universal human experience.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in ...
Éditeur : University of Washington Press, Seattle
Date d'édition : 2000
Reliure : Trade Paperback
Etat : Very Good
Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket
Edition : First Edition.
Type de livre : Book