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When, why and how was it first believed that the corpse could reveal ‘signs’ useful for understanding the causes of death and eventually identifying those responsible for it? The Body of Evidence. Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine, edited by Francesco Paolo de Ceglia, shows how in the late Middle Ages the dead body, which had previously rarely been questioned, became a specific object of investigation by doctors, philosophers, theologians and jurists. The volume sheds new light on the elements of continuity, but also on the effort made to liberate the semantization of the corpse from what were, broadly speaking, necromantic practices, which would eventually merge into forensic medicine.
Price: $223.00
Pages: 356
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science
Publication Date:
23 January 2020
ISBN: 9789004284814
Format: Hardcover
"The Body of Evidence is a welcome contribution to the history of science that moves the history of the body, and scientific interest in it, away from anatomical textbooks and treatises to look at how that knowledge was deployed in legal contexts."
- Sarah Tarlow, University of Leicester, in: Journal of British Studies, January 2022, Vol. 61, No. 1: pp. 190-91.
- Sarah Tarlow, University of Leicester, in: Journal of British Studies, January 2022, Vol. 61, No. 1: pp. 190-91.
Francesco Paolo de Ceglia, Ph.D. (2001), is a Professor of History of Science at the University of Bari, where he directs the Interuniversity Research Center, Seminary of the History of Science. He has often been a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He has published monographs and articles on the relationship between the history of science and theology, including The Secret of Saint Januarius. Natural History of a Neapolitan Miracle (Einaudi, 2016).