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Zusatztext An excellent work. Klappentext In early modern Europe there was a small group of books on the art of physiognomy which claimed to provide self-knowledge through an interpretation of external features. The authors of these books explained how the eyes, the face, and all of nature's natural bodies became windows of the soul. Dr Porter uses remnants of the highly illustrated and graffitied texts on physiognomy to interpret the way that these books were read and viewed, and trace the changes that took place between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of Romanticism. Zusammenfassung With the dawn of Romanticism, be it in the realms of science, religion, or poetry, the interest in physiognomy rekindled. This book interprets the way in which books on physiognomy were read, tracing the wider intellectual, social, and cultural changes that contributed to the metamorphosis of this way of beholding oneself and the natural world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: A Persistent Fisnomical Consciousness c.400BCE-c.400CE 2: The Bookish Face of Physiognomy in Early Modern Europe 3: The Troubling Emergence of the 'Egyptian' in Early Modern Europe 4: The Physiognomy Captured and Lost in a Book 5: Physiognomating by the Book 6: Living Graffiti Conclusion: Fisnomy-to-Fisnomy Bibliography Index
