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The Man Who Crucified Himself
Maria Böhmer
其他書名
Readings of a Medical Case in Nineteenth-Century Europe
出版BRILL, 2018-11-01
主題Medical / HistoryLanguage Arts & Disciplines / JournalismLiterary Collections / GeneralLiterary Criticism / GeneralHistory / Europe / GeneralMedical / Psychiatry / General
ISBN90043536079789004353602
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=oKOODwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The Man Who Crucified Himself is the history of a sensational nineteenth-century medical case. In 1805 a shoemaker called Mattio Lovat attempted to crucify himself in Venice. His act raised a furore, and the story spread across Europe. For the rest of the 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 'interpretive communities'. Her meticulously researched study sheds new light on Lovat’s case and offers fresh insights on the case narrative as a genre - both epistemic and literary.