代表虚弱：文艺复兴时期意大利的患病身体（城市中的身体）

这本书首次深入分析了约1400年至1650年间意大利身体虚弱的情况。通过独创性的贡献和方法，它解决了医学、宗教和文学文本中图像和表现之间的基本但尚未讨论的关系。
除了现代的“疾病”范畴之外，每一章都用伽利略式的幽默术语来看待疾病，探讨视觉文化中描述了哪些疾病，在什么背景下，为什么，什么时候。通过探索卡拉瓦乔、莱昂纳多和米开朗基罗等艺术家的作品，这项研究考虑了被麻风病、鼠疫、甲状腺肿和癌症等疾病改变的理想化身体。通过这样做，医疗和通过奇迹疗法描述疾病之间的关系也被揭示出来。广义的时间顺序方法展示了这种表述是如何以及为什么会随着时间和不同形式的媒体发生变化的。总的来说，这些章节解释了身体运作和结构知识的发展如何反映在对虚弱和疾病的隐喻、寓言和象征意义的改变的观念和表达中。
跨学科方法使本研究成为文艺复兴时期欧洲艺术史、医学史、宗教史、社会史和思想史的学生和专家的完美资源。
Representing Infirmity: Diseased Bodies in Renaissance Italy (The Body in the City)
This volume is the first in-depth analysis of how infirm bodies were represented in Italy from c. 1400 to 1650. Through original contributions and methodologies, it addresses the fundamental yet undiscussed relationship between images and representations in medical, religious, and literary texts.
Looking beyond the modern category of ‘disease’ and viewing infirmity in Galenic humoral terms, each chapter explores which infirmities were depicted in visual culture, in what context, why, and when. By exploring the works of artists such as Caravaggio, Leonardo, and Michelangelo, this study considers the idealized body altered by diseases, including leprosy, plague, goitre, and cancer. In doing so, the relationship between medical treatment and the depiction of infirmities through miracle cures is also revealed. The broad chronological approach demonstrates how and why such representations change, both over time and across different forms of media. Collectively, the chapters explain how the development of knowledge of the workings and structure of the body was reflected in changed ideas and representations of the metaphorical, allegorical, and symbolic meanings of infirmity and disease.
The interdisciplinary approach makes this study the perfect resource for both students and specialists of the history of art, medicine and religion, and social and intellectual history across Renaissance Europe.

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