Deformità fisica e identità della persona tra Medioevo ed età moderna : : atti del XIV Convegno di studi organizzato dal Centro di studi sulla civiltà del tardo medioevo : San Miniato, 21-23 settembre 2012 / / a cura di Gian Maria Varanini.

• Superior document: Collana di studi e ricerche (Centro di studi sulla civiltà del tardo medioevo (San Miniato, Italy)) ; 14
• TeilnehmendeR: Varanini, Gian Maria,
• Place / Publishing House: Firenze, Italy : : Firenze University Press,, [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: Italian
• Series: Collana di studi e ricerche (Centro di studi sulla civiltà del tardo medioevo (San Miniato, Italy)) ; 14.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 451 pages) :; illustrations.
• Other title: Deformità fisica e identità della persona tra medioevo ed età moderna
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: a cura di Gian Maria Varanini.

In recent decades, European historiography has actively dealt with the history of the body, thus giving depth and awareness to powerful stimuli coming from the dominant culture in the affluent society. Therefore, not only the 'beautiful' body has been the object of research, but also the body of the common man, mutilated, deformed and imperfect. The volume, through surveys in legal-regulatory, personal, iconographic, literary sources and in medical and physiognomic treatises and the participation of some of the major international specialists in the field, intends to deepen these issues especially for the geographical, cultural and documentary space of Italy of the late Middle Ages and the early modern age remained until now quite at the margins of this line of studies.