
The Body as a Mirror of the Soul
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Contributors: Eniko Békés (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Joël Biard (University of Tours), Lisa Devriese (KU Leuven), Maria Fernanda Ferrini (University of Macerata), Christophe Grellard (École Pratique des Hautes Études), Luís Campos Ribeiro (University of Lisbon), Maria Michela Sassi (University of Pisa), Oleg Voskoboynikov (Higher School of Economics Moscow), Steven J. Williams (New Mexico Highlands University), Joseph Ziegler (University of Haifa), Gabriella Zuccolin (University of Pavia)
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- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Lisa Devriese
- Physiognomy from Antiquity to the Renaissance : An Introduction
- Maria Michela Sassi
- The Beginnings of Physiognomy in Ancient Greece
- Maria Fernanda Ferrini
- ????p??/????p??: Manuscript Tradition and Conjecture
- Eniko Békés
- The Physiognomy of Apostle Paul: Between Texts and Images
- Steven J. Williams
- Some Observations on the Scholarly Reception of Physiognomy in the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Century: Success, and the Limits of Success
- Lisa Devriese
- First Medieval Attestations of the Physiognomonica
- Oleg Voskoboynikov
- Michael Scotus' Physiognomy: Notes on Text and Context
- Joël Biard and Christophe Grellard
- La place des questiones super physionomiam dans le systeme philosophique de Jean Buridan
- Gabriella Zuccolin
- Towards a Critical Edition of Michele Savonarola's Speculum Physionomie
- Joseph Ziegler and Luís Campos Ribeiro
- Astral Physiognomy in the Fifteenth Century: the Case of The Illuminated Opening Folio of Rolandus Scriptoris' Reductorium Phisonomie
- Notes on Contributors
- Index codicum manu scriptorum
- Index nominum
- Illustrations
- Fig. 4.1-Bust of Socrates, Rome, Musei Vaticani, fourth-century Roman copy of a Greek original
- Fig. 4.2-Bust of Emperor Traian Decius (249-251), Rome, Musei Capitolini.
- Fig. 4.3-Head of Emperor Constantine I, Rome, Musei Capitolini, fourth century.
- Fig. 4.4-Head of Plotinus, Ostia Antica, Museo Ostiense, second half of the third century.
- Fig. 4.5-Saint Paul with Thecla, detail of an ivory casket, London, The British Museum, ca. 430.
- Fig. 4.6-Saints Peter and Paul, fondo d'oro, Rome, Musei Vaticani, second half of the fourth century.
- Fig. 4.7-Saint Paul, fresco in the catacomb of Saint Thecla in Rome, fourth century.
- Fig. 4.8-Thecla ship with Paul as captain, detail of a sarcophagus, Rome, Musei Capitolini, fourth century.
- Fig. 10.1-Manuscript Lisbon, Biblioteca da Ajuda, MS 52-XIII-18, f. 1r.
- Fig. 10.2-Detail of manuscript Lisbon, Biblioteca da Ajuda, MS 52-XIII-18, f. 1r.
- Fig. 10.3-Detail of Saturn.
- Fig. 10.4-Detail of Jupiter.
- Fig. 10.5-Detail of Mars.
- Fig. 10.6-Detail of the Sun.
- Fig. 10.7-Detail of Mercury.
- Fig. 10.8-Detail of Taurus.
- Fig. 10.9-Detail of Cancer.
- Fig. 10.10-Detail of Leo.
- Fig. 10.11-Detail of Sagittarius.
- Fig. 10.12-Detail of Aquarius.
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