ISBN10: 0199276579, ISBN13: 9780199276578, [publisher: Clarendon Press] Hardcover 0199276579
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ISBN10: 0199276579, ISBN13: 9780199276578, [publisher: Clarendon Press] Hardcover
[Columbia, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]
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Oxford, England OUP Oxford 2005 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 392 p. Oxford Historical Monographs.

ISBN10: 0199276579, ISBN13: 9780199276578, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. In late fifteenth century Florence, Renaissance humanists rediscovered a secret, natural language hidden in the visual wisdom of the proverb 'the eyes are the windows of the soul'. Through its magical prism, the language of eyes, faces, voices, laughs, walks, even stones, plants and animals, all became windows into the souls of other people, of oneself, of nature, and ultimately of God. Some saw in its words the perfect hieroglyphic language by which Adam had firstnamed nature, which, when combined with the art of memory, could bring about a form of 'inner writing' or mystical self-transformation. Yet many others dismissed it as a collection of arbitraryconventions, superstitious enigmas, or 'gypsy' riddles. Embroiled in the religious persecution of the Reformation, rejected as a science during the Scientific Revolution, in the age of Enlightenment physiognomy came to be seen as nothing more than an amusing entertainment. But with the dawn of Romanticism, be it in the realms of science, religion, or poetry, some began to see that physiognomy was no game and the flame of serious interest in physiognomy was once again rekindled.Combining book history and visual history, Dr Porter reconstructs this physiognomical eye, interprets the way in which books on physiognomy were read and traces the wider intellectual, social, and culturalchan ...
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Oxford, England OUP Oxford 2005 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 392 p. Oxford Historical Monographs.

ISBN10: 0199276579, ISBN13: 9780199276578, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. In late fifteenth century Florence, Renaissance humanists rediscovered a secret, natural language hidden in the visual wisdom of the proverb 'the eyes are the windows of the soul'. Through its magical prism, the language of eyes, faces, voices, laughs, walks, even stones, plants and animals, all became windows into the souls of other people, of oneself, of nature, and ultimately of God. Some saw in its words the perfect hieroglyphic language by which Adam had firstnamed nature, which, when combined with the art of memory, could bring about a form of 'inner writing' or mystical self-transformation. Yet many others dismissed it as a collection of arbitraryconventions, superstitious enigmas, or 'gypsy' riddles. Embroiled in the religious persecution of the Reformation, rejected as a science during the Scientific Revolution, in the age of Enlightenment physiognomy came to be seen as nothing more than an amusing entertainment. But with the dawn of Romanticism, be it in the realms of science, religion, or poetry, some began to see that physiognomy was no game and the flame of serious interest in physiognomy was once again rekindled.Combining book history and visual history, Dr Porter reconstructs this physiognomical eye, interprets the way in which books on physiognomy were read and traces the wider intellectual, social, and culturalchan ...
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