Healing, performance and ceremony in the writings of three early modern physicians : Hippolytus Guarinonius and the brothers Felix and Thomas Platter /: Hippolytus Guarinonius and the brothers Felix and Thomas Platter. (2016)
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- Title:
- Healing, performance and ceremony in the writings of three early modern physicians : Hippolytus Guarinonius and the brothers Felix and Thomas Platter /: Hippolytus Guarinonius and the brothers Felix and Thomas Platter. (2016)
- Main Title:
- Healing, performance and ceremony in the writings of three early modern physicians : Hippolytus Guarinonius and the brothers Felix and Thomas Platter
- Further Information:
- Note: M.A. Katritzky ; translations by M.A. Katritzky and Verena Theile.
- Other Names:
- Katritzky, M. A
- Contents:
- Contents: Part I Introduction: Healing performance and ceremony in the writings of three physicians; The brothers Felix Platter (1536-1614) and Thomas Platter (1574-1628); Hippolytus Guarinonius (1571-1654). Part II Ceremony and Festival: 'Christian fools with varnish'd faces'; Jewish traditions and ceremonies in Montpellier and Avignon; Physicians at court festivals; Commedia dell'arte costumes at a German court wedding of 1598. Part III Healers and Performers: Queen Elizabeth, Shakespeare and English actors in Europe; Marketplace healers and performers; Medicine, magic and superstition; Performing monsters. Part IV Performing Healing: Commedia dell'Arte Quack Troupes: A new identification for 'Zan Bragetta': Giovanni Paulo Alfieri; Quack performances in Guarinonius's Grewel; Marketing medicine, exemplifying folly: lazzi and the deadly sins; Physical, mental and spiritual; health: stage fools in a medical treatise. Part V Source Texts: Felix Platter: the 1598 wedding of Johann Georg, Count of Hohenzollern and Franziska, Countess of Salm; Thomas Platter in Avignon: Jewish life and a performing quack troup in 1598; Hippolytus Guarinonius's Grewel: 35 commedia dell'arte lazzi; Bibliography; Index.
- Publisher Details:
- Place of publication not identified : Routledge
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (466 pages)
- Subjects:
- 610.922
Physicians -- Austria
Physicians -- Switzerland
Physicians -- Austria -- Biography
Physicians -- Switzerland -- Biography
History, 16th Century -- Austria
History, 16th Century -- Switzerland
Social Conditions -- Austria
Social Conditions -- Switzerland
Austria
Switzerland - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781351931458
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