Fat Bodies in Early Modern Europe

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Fat Bodies in Early Modern Europe

Burke, Jill; Ott, Christine; Fletcher, Holly

Taylor & Francis Ltd

04/2026

248

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Inglês

9781032771663

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Introduction: Fat Bodies in Early Modern Europe Part I: Fatness, Health and Community 1. 'No Age Did Ever Afford More Instances of Corpulency': Obesity as a Collective Condition and the Early Modern Medicalization of Girth 2. Fatness and Fertility: Childbearing and the Size of Women's Bodies in Early Modern Germany Part II: Cultural Hierarchies 3. The Fat Female Body in Angelo Beolco's Anti-Classicist Literary Portraits 4. Silenus, as a Vase: The Fat Man's Body at the School of Fontainebleau (c.1530-c.1570) 5. Laughter, Guilt, Anxiety: Dealing with Fat Animals in Early Modern Europe Part III: Shifting Meanings 6. Heavy Debates: Weighing Fatness in a Spanish Renaissance Dialogue 7. How to Fragment a Perfect Microcosm: The Sphere as the Shape of Fat Bodies in Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors and Cyrano's 'Contre un gros homme' 8. Robust Hero/Fat Fool: Early Modern Fat Stereotypes in the Portrait of Alessandro dal Borro
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body image history;early modern medicine;corporeality studies;gender and sexuality research;cultural perceptions of obesity;animal human boundaries;historical fatness social attitudes