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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.
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- PublisherUniversity of Washington Press
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0295980729
- ISBN 13 9780295980720
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages300
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Trout Gallery/Folger Shakespeare Library, 2001
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Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
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Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
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Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
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Broschiert / Paperback. Condition: Sehr gut. 277 S. : zahlr. Abb. ; 31 cm. In good condition. - Contents -- Foreword and Acknowledgments of The Trout Gallery's Director -- Foreword of The Folger Shakespeare Library's Director -- Curator's Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Claire Richter Sherman -- "The Handy Worke of the Incomprehensible Creator" -- Martin Kemp -- A Manual Computer for Reckoning Time Sachiko Kusukawa -- The Singing Hand -- Susan Forscher Weiss -- A Show of Hands -- Brian P. Copenhaver -- Catalogue of Works -- Prefatory Notes -- i. Reading the Writing on Hands -- Mentor, Metaphor, and Map: Cat. 1-4 -- Identity, Intelligence, and Creativity: Cat. 5-10 -- n. The Handiwork of the Creator -- The Noblest Creation: Cat. 11-16 -- The Instrument of Instruments: Cat. 17-25 -- in. Messengers of the World -- The Sense of Touch: Cat. 26-33 -- Inscribing Memory: Cat. 34-39 -- iv. Knowledge on Hand -- Manipulating Time: Cat. 40-45 -- Steps to Singing: Cat.46-50 -- Companion of Eloquence: Cat. 51-56 -- v. The Whole World in the Hand -- The Body as Microcosm: Cat. 57-62 -- Signs upon the Hand: Cat. 63-68 -- The Hand of the Philosopher: Cat. 69-73 -- vi. Guiding Hands -- Defenders of Faith: Cat. 74-78 -- Guardians of Morals: Cat. 79-83. ISBN 0295980729 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1260. Seller Inventory # 1198273
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