A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture, 2010, p.582-597
2010
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Physiognomy
- Ist Teil von
- A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture, 2010, p.582-597
- Ort / Verlag
- Oxford, UK: Wiley‐Blackwell
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2010
- Quelle
- Wiley Online Library All Obooks
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- This chapter contains sections titled: The Art of Physiognomy Physiognomy in the Theatrum Mundi The Renaissance of Physiognomy in Early Modern Culture Physiognomic Methods Physiognomy and the Occult The Physiognomy of the Face Physiognomic vs Pathognomic Features Characterological Imprints Notes References and Further Reading
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 140518762X, 9781405187626DOI: 10.1002/9781444319019.ch37Titel-ID: cdi_wiley_ebooks_10_1002_9781444319019_ch37_ch37
- Format
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- Schlagworte
- art of physiognomy ‐ Pierre de la Primaudaye's The French Academy , Juan Huarte's Examen de Ingenios , Thomas Wright's The Passions of the Mind, humoral‐pathological treatises, as Levinus Lemnius' The Touchstone of Complexions , Timothy Bright's A Treatise of Melancholy and Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, physiognomic reading ‐ a most basic human activity, physiognomy and art of physiognomy, physiognomy in the Theatrum Mundi ‐ contemplation of the body as index of the mind, nowhere more obvious than in context of theatrical play, Renaissance of physiognomy ‐ in early modern culture, Shakespeare's Duncan, rejecting possibility of inferring the mind's design from features of the face