Title Windows of the soul : physiognomy in European culture 1470-1780 / Martin Porter.

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Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

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Description	1 online resource (xviii, 365 pages) : illustrations, portraits.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Oxford historical monographs
	Oxford historical monographs.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-345) and index.
Summary	In early modern Europe there was a small group of books on the art of physiognomy which claimed to provide self-knowledge through an interpretation of external features. The authors of these books explained how the eyes, the face, and all of nature's natural bodies became windows of the soul. Dr Porter uses remnants of the highly illustrated and graffitied texts on physiognomy to interpret the way that these books were read and viewed, and trace the changes that took place between. the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of Romanticism. - ;In late fifteenth century Florence, Renaissance h.
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Subject	Physiognomy -- Europe -- History.
	Physiognomy.
	Europe.
	History.
	Philosophical anthropology -- Europe -- History.
	Philosophical anthropology.
	Religious thought -- Europe -- History.
	Religious thought.
	Theology -- Europe -- History.
	Theology.
	Education -- Europe -- History.
	Education.
	Art -- Europe -- History.
	Art.
	Europe -- Civilization -- History.
	Civilization.
	Physiognomy.
	Books -- history.
	Facial Expression.
	Europe.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Porter, Martin (Martin Henry). Windows of the soul. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005 9780199276578 0199276579 (OCoLC)62217324
ISBN	9780191534836 (electronic book)
	0191534838 (electronic book)
	1280905824
	9781280905827
	0199276579 (Cloth)
	9780199276578

Title Windows of the soul : physiognomy in European culture 1470-1780 / Martin Porter.

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