The Man Who Crucified Himself [print & e-book]

Readings of a Medical Case in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-38699-0
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Medienkombination, Englisch, Band 97

Reihe: Clio Medica

The Man Who Crucified Himself is the history of a sensational medical case. In 1805, a shoemaker called Mattio Lovat attempted to crucify himself in Venice. His act caused a big stir - and the story spread all over Europe. Throughout the nineteenth century, Lovat’s case fuelled scientific and popular debates on medicine, madness, suicide and religion. Drawing on Italian, German, English and French sources, Maria Böhmer traces the multiple readings of the case and identifies various communities of interpretation. Her detailed study sheds new light not only on the history of Lovat’s case but also offers a fresh view on case narratives in general - both as an epistemic and literary genre.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Böhmer, Maria

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments

Note from the Series Editor

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Hellenistic and Roman Terracottas: An Introduction

Giorgos Papantoniou, Demetrios Michaelides and Maria Dikomitou-Eliadou

Part 1: Cyprus

1 Terracottas in a Domestic Context: The Case of the House of Orpheus in Nea Paphos, Cyprus

Giorgos Papantoniou, Demetrios Michaelides and Maria Dikomitou-Eliadou

2 Hellenistic Terracottas and Limestone Sculptures in Cypriot Sanctuaries: On the Search for Types and Votive Habits

Gabriele Koiner and Nicole Reitinger

3 The Terracottas from the Kitian Sanctuary of Artemis Paralia: A Snapshot

Pauline Maillard

4 Terracotta Figurines of Hellenistic Arsinoe and Environs

Eustathios Raptou

5 Hellenistic Terracottas: The Evidence from Ancient Arsinoe

Nancy Serwint

6 About Aphrodite and Eros at Amathous: Terracotta and Sculpture

Isabelle Tassignon

7 Underneath the Veil: Terracotta Figurines from the Amathous Eastern Necropolis

Elisavet Stefani

8 Contemplating Issues of Historical Continuity: The Case of the Figurines from Erimi-Bamboula, Cyprus

Polina Christofi

9 Hellenistic and Roman Terracottas in the Cypriot Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford: Contexts, Iconography, Meaning and Mediterranean Connections

Anja Ulbrich

Part 2: Greece and Asia Minor

10 Theriomorphic Figures in Hellenistic and Roman Arcadia: Nostalgia and Ritual

Erin Walcek Averett

11 Production of Terracotta Figurines in the Hellenistic Period at the Ancient City of Pherai, Thessaly

Argyroula Doulgeri-Intzesiloglou and Polyxeni Arachoviti

12 Some New Insights into the Materials Used for the Decoration of Hellenistic Terracotta Figurines in the Pherai Workshops, Greece

Eleni Asderaki-Tzoumerkioti, Manos Dionyssiou, Argyroula Doulgeri-Intzesiloglou and Polyxeni Arachoviti

13 A Group of Terracotta Ex-Voto Figurines from Amarynthos, Euboea: A Case Study in Sanctuary Deposition Practices

Constantina Benissi

14 Greek Terracotta Dolls: Between the Domestic and the Religious Sphere

Frauke Gutschke

15 Terracotta Veiled Women: A Symbol of Transition from Nymphe to Gyne

Nathalie Martin

16 The Soft Youth in Boeotian Coroplasty

Angele Rosenberg-Dimitracopoulou

17 “Visiting Gods” Revisited. Aphrodite Visiting Artemis, or Bride?

Arthur Muller

18 Aphrodite, Coming of Age and Marriage: Contextualisation and Reconsideration of the Nude Young Women Kneeling in a Shell

Stéphanie Huysecom-Haxhi

19 Terracottas from Pergamon’s Residential Area: Comments regarding Chronology and Relations to Other Sites

Sven Kielau

Part 3: Italy

20 Production and Consumption of Terracottas: A Case Study at Metapontion in Southern Italy

Rebecca Miller Ammerman

21 Coroplastics from the House of Marcus Fabius Rufus in Pompeii: Archaeological Artefacts from a Sacred Place

Alessandro Russo

22 Clay Togati (Men Wearing a Tunic and Holding a Scroll) from Harbour and River Towns: Some Hypotheses Regarding Their Occurrence and Meaning

Elena Martelli

Part 4: North Africa

23 Sacred and Funeral Terracotta Figurines in Africa Proconsularis, Numidia and Mauretania Caesariensis between the First and Third Centuries CE

Solenn de Larminat

24 Female Figurines in Roman Karanis: An Agentive Approach

Lara Weiss

Part 5: The Levant and Mesopotamia

25 From Alexandria to Tyros: The Egyptian Character of the Hellenistic Figurines from Kharayeb

Marianna Castiglione

26 Toward a Levantine Koine: Ties between Hellenistic Terracottas from Coele Syria and Cyprus

Adi Erlich

27 The Case of the Persian Riders at Seleucid Jebel Khalid on the Euphrates: The Survival of Syrian Tradition in a Greek Settlement

Heather Jackson

28 A Look from the Outside: Mediterranean Influences on the Terracotta Figurines from Seleucia on the Tigris

Roberta Menegazzi

29 The Plaster Figurines of Khirbet es-Samra Cemetery in Jordan

Abdalla Nabulsi

General Index

Über Autor(innen)

Maria Böhmer, Ph.D. (2013), European University Institute Florence, Italy, is postdoctoral research fellow in the history of medicine at the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine (IBME) at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.