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Anthropomorphism - the projection of the human form onto the every aspect of the world - closely relates to early modern notions of analogy and microcosm. What had been construed in Antiquity as a ready metaphor for the order of creation was reworked into a complex system relating the human body to the body of the world. Numerous books and images - cosmological diagrams, illustrated treatises of botany and zoology, maps, alphabets, collections of ornaments, architectural essays - are entirely constructed on the anthropomorphic analogy. Exploring the complexities inherent in such work, the interdisciplinary essays in this volume address how the anthropomorphic model is fraught with contradictions and tensions, between magical and rational, speculative and practical thought. Contributors include Pamela Brekka, Anne-Laure van Bruaene, Ralph Dekoninck, Agnes Guiderdoni, Christopher P. Heuer, Sarah Kyle, Walter S. Melion, Christina Normore, Elizabeth Petcu, Bertrand Prevost, Bret Rothstein, Paul Smith, Miya Tokumitsu, Michel Weemans, and Elke Werner.
Contents
List of Illustrations Notes on the EditorsNotes on the Contributors Introduction Michel Weemans and Bertrand PrevostDelineating the Boundaries of the Human1 Revolting Beasts: Animal Satire and Animal Trials in the Dutch Revolt Anne-Laure van Bruaene2 Monkey in the Middle Christina Normore3 Landscape and Body in Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel Paul J. Smith4 The Migrating Cannibal: Anthropophagy at Home and at the Edge of the World Miya TokumitsuEmpathy and the Constitution of the Self5 Picturing the Soul, Living and Departed Nathalie de Breze6 Patience Grows: The First Roots of Joris Hoefnagel's Emblematic Art Marisa Bass7 The 'Album micorum' and the Kaleidoscope of the Self: Notes on the Friendship Book of Jacob Heyblocq Aneta Georgievska-ShineVisualizing the Body Politic8 Picturing the 'Living' Tabernacle in the Antwerp Polyglot BiblePamela Merrill Brekka9 A New Heraldry: Vision and Rhetoric in the 'Carrara Herbal'Sarah R. Kyle10 Anthropomorphic Maps: On the Aesthetic Form and Political Function of Body Metaphors in the Early Modern Europe Discourse Elke Anna WernerFIGURATION AND SEMIOTIC POTENTIALAnthropomorphosis and Its Critics11 Prodigies of Nature, Wonders of the Hand: Political Portents and Divine: Artifice in Haarlem ca. 1600Walter S. Melion12 Between Fiction and Reality: The Image Body in the Early Modern Theory of the SymbolRalph DekoninckAnthropomorphosis and Its Conditions13 Anthropomorphizing the Orders: 'Terms' of Architectural Eloquence in the Northern Renaissance Elizabeth J. Petcu14 Visage-paysage. Probleme de peinture Bertrand PrevostFiguring the Impossible15 Nobody's BruegelChristopher P. Heuer16 Morbid Fascination: Death by BruegelLarry SilverMetamorphic Figuration17 Jan van Hemessen's Anatomy of ParodyBret L. Rothstein18 The Smoke of Sacrifice: Anthropomorphism and Figure in Karel van Mallery's 'Sacrifice of Cain and Abel' for Louis Richeome's 'Tableaux Sacrez' (1601) Michel WeemansIndex Nominum List of Illustrations
