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A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE HUMAN BODYEdited by: Linda Kalof, Michigan State University, and William Bynum, University College London

Volume 1: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE HUMAN BODY IN ANTIqUITYEdited by Daniel Garrison, Northwestern University

A Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity explores 1,800 years of the history of the West, from Homer to the end of the first millennium CE. This span of time includes three major eras of Greek civilization, the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire until its collapse in the 5th century CE, and Medieval Europe up to the transition to the High Middle Ages. Key issues include the invention of the nude as a cultural icon, the early development of Western medicine, and formative discourses about the identity and ethical management of the body.

CONTENTS:Introduction1. Birth and death, Valerie Hope, The Open University2. Health and disease, Patrick Macfarlane, Providence

College3. Sex, Marilyn Skinner, University of Arizona4. Medical knowledge/technology, Brooke Holmes,

Princeton University5. Popular beliefs, Page duBois, University of

California San Diego

6. Beauty and concepts of the ideal, Julia Asher-Greve, Independent Scholar, Basel Switzerland

7. Marked Bodies (gender, race, class, age, disability, disease), Brooke Holmes, Princeton University

8. Marked Bodies (bestial/divine/natural), Marguerite Johnson, University of Newcastle

9. Cultural Representations, Amalia Avramidou, Northwestern University

10. Self and Society, Marc Mastrangelo, Dickinson College

Notes / Bibliography / Index

Volume 2: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE HUMAN BODY IN THE MEDIEVAL AGEEdited by Monica H. Green, Arizona State University

The Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities of medieval western Europe conceived of the human body in manifold ways. The body was not a fixed or unmalleable mass of flesh, but an entity that changed its character depending on its age, its interactions with its environment, and its diet. For example, a slave would have been marked by her language, her name, her religion, or even by a sign burned onto her skin, not by her color alone. Covering the period from 500 to 1500 and using sources that range across the full spectrum of medieval literary, scientific, medical, and artistic production, this volume explores the rich variety of medieval views of both the real and the metaphorical body.

CONTENTS:Introduction1. Birth and Death, Katharine Park, Harvard

University2. Health, Disease and the Medieval Body, Ann

G. Carmichael, University of Indiana3. The Sexual Body, Ruth Karras, University of

Minnesota and Jacqueline Murray, University of Guelph

4. The Body Inferred: Knowing the Body through the Dissection of Texts, Fernando Salmón, University of Cantabria

5. Bodies and the Supernatural: Humans, Demons and Angels, Anke Bernau, University of Manchester

6. Beautiful Bodies, Montserrat Cabré, Universidad de Cantabria

7. Identity Made Visible: Marked Bodies, Monica H. Green, Arizona State University

8. Monstrous Mongols, Noreen Giffney, University College Dublin

9. Cultural Representations of the Body, Samantha Riches, University of Lancaster and Bettina Bildhauer, University of St Andrews

10. Self and Society, Sylvia Huot, Pembroke College, Cambridge


The Renaissance was a time of immense change in the social, political, economic, intellectual and artistic arenas of the Western world. The cultural construction of the human body occupied a pivotal role in those transformations. The social and cultural meanings of embodiment revolutionized the intellectual, political and emotional ideologies of the period. Covering the period 1400 to 1600, this volume examines the flexible and shifting categories of the body at an unparalleled time of growth in geographical exploration, science, technology and commerce.

Volume 3: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE HUMAN BODY IN THE RENAISSANCEEdited by Linda Kalof, Michigan State University, and William Bynum, University College London

CONTENTS:Introduction1. Birth and Death in Early Modern Europe,

Lianne McTavish, University of Alberta 2. The Body in Health and Disease: Why me?

Why now? How?, Margaret Healy, University of Sussex 3. Sexuality: Of Man, Woman, and Beastly

Business, Katherine Crawford, Vanderbilt University4. The Body in/as Text: Medical Knowledge

and Technologies in the Renaissance, Susan Broomhall, The University of Western Australia

5. The Common Body: Renaissance Popular Beliefs, Karen Raber, University of Mississippi

6. Beauty and Concepts of the Ideal, Mary Rogers, Independent Scholar, UK

7. Marked Body as Otherness in Renaissance Italian Culture, Patrizia Bettella, University of Alberta

8. The Marked Body: The Witches, Lady Macbeth and the Relics, Diane Purkiss, Keble College Oxford

9. Fashioning Civil Bodies and ‘Others’: Cultural Representations, Margaret Healy, University of Sussex

10. Renaissance Selves, Renaissance Bodies, Margaret L. King, Brooklyn College & Graduate Center, CUNY


Volume 4: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE HUMAN BODY IN THE ENLIGHTENMENTEdited by Carole Reeves, University College London

The Enlightenment (1600-1800) was a time when people began to take stock of their intrinsic worth as individuals. Of course, slaves were still property, servants were indentured, daughters “belonged” to fathers and brothers, wives to husbands, and paupers were tethered to their parish. But increased population, migration and urbanization began to reshape both national and personal identity. A new modern society demanded a rethinking of the human body from conception to death and beyond. The history of midwives, medics, colonialists, crossdressers, corpses, vampires, witches, beggars, beauties, body snatchers, incest and immaculate conceptions - all reveal how the body changed in this age of turbulence and transition.

CONTENTS:Introduction1. The Body in Birth and Death, Lisa Cody,

Claremont McKenna College2. Pliable Bodies: The Moral Biology of

Health and Disease, Kevin Sienna, Trent University

3. Sexual Knowledge: Panspermist Jokes, Reproductive Technologies, and Virgin Births, George Rousseau, University of Oxford

4. Medical Knowledge and Technologies: The Making of the Enlightened Body, Emma Spary, University College, London

5. Popular Beliefs about the Dead Body, Ruth Richardson, Universities of Hertfordshire and Cambridge

6. The Body Beautiful, David M. Turner, Swansea University

7. Marked Bodies and Social Meanings, Laura Gowing, King’s College London

8. The Puzzle of the Pox-Marked Body, Susan Staves, Brandeis University

9. Cultural Representations: “Rogue Literature” and the Reality of the Begging Body, Tim Hitchcock, University of Hertfordshire

10. Self and Society: Attitudes towards Incest in Popular Ballads, Ruth Perry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Volume 5: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE HUMAN BODY IN THE AGE OF EMpIREEdited by Michael Sappol, National Library of Medicine, Washington DC, and Stephen p. Rice, Ramapo College of New Jersey

The “long nineteenth century” was an age of empire and empire builders, of state formation and expansion, and of colonial and imperial wars and conquest throughout most of the world. It was also an age that saw enormous changes in how people gave meaning to and made sense of the human body. Spanning the period from 1800 to 1920, this volume takes up a host of topics in the cultural history of the human body, including the rise of modern medicine and debates about vaccination, the representation of sexual perversity, developments in medical technology and new conceptions of bodily perfection.

CONTENTS:Introduction1. Birth and Death under the Sign of Thomas

Malthus, Thomas Laqueur, University of California, Berkeley, and Lisa Cody, Claremont McKenna College

2. Medical Perspectives on Health and Disease, Michael Worboys, The University of Manchester

3. Othering Sexual Perversity: England, Empire, Race, and Sexual Science, Richard C. Sha, American University

4. Medical Science, Technology, and the Body, 1800-1920, Chandak Sengoopta, Birkbeck College, University of London

5. Popular Beliefs and the Body: ‘A Nation of Good Animals’, Pamela K. Gilbert, University of Florida

6. The Normal, the Ideal, and the Beautiful: Perfect Bodies during the Age of Empire, Michael Hau, Monash University

7. Empire, Boundaries, and Bodies: Colonial Tatooing Practices, Clare Anderson, University of Warwick

8. Smallpox, Vaccination, and the Marked Body, Nadja Durbach, The University of Utah

9. Picturing Bodies in the Nineteenth Century, Stephen P. Rice, Ramapo College of New Jersey

10. From Mimetic Machines to Digital Organisms: The Transformation of the Human Motor, Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University


The human body was revolutionised in the 20th Century. Developments in politics, sexuality, technology, and culture all acted to reshape our understanding of our bodies. The human body in the 21st Century is less fixed than ever before with some theorists now even anticipating the post-human body. Diverse factors have impacted on both the real and the imagined body, including war, contraception, medicine, feminism, gay aesthetics, the rise of celebrity culture, totalitarian political regimes, fashion, AIDS, communication technologies and cosmetic surgery.

Volume 6: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE HUMAN BODY IN THE MODERN AGEEdited by Ivan Crozier, University of Edinburgh

CONTENTS:Introduction1. Death and Birth, Malcolm Nicolson, Glasgow

University2. Diseased Bodies in the Modern World, Anna

Crozier, University of Strathclyde, & Ivan Crozier, University of Edinburgh

3. Performing the Sexual Body, Ivan Crozier, University of Edinburgh

4. The Technological Fix and the Modern Body: Surgery as a Paradigmatic Case, Thomas Schlich, McGill University

5. Popular Beliefs, Dan O’Connor, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, JHU

6 Beauty and Concepts of the Ideal, Christopher Forth, University of Kansas

7. Remarkable Bodies, Anna Cole, Goldsmiths College, University of London, and Anna Haebich, Griffith University, Australia

8. Body Marks: An Essay into the Social and Biotechnological Imaginaries, Michael Fischer, MIT

9. Cultural Representations, Ana Carden Coyne, Manchester University

10. Self and Society, Dan Vyleta, Independent ScholarNotes / Bibliography / Index

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A CULTURAL HISTORY OF ANIMALS IN ANTIqUITYEdited by Linda Kalof

A Cultural History of Animals In Antiquity presents an extraordinarily broad assessment of animal cultures from 2500 BC to 1000 AD, describing how animals were an intrinsic part of the spiritual life of ancient society, how they were hunted, domesticated and used for entertainment, and the roles animals played in ancient science and philosophy.

April 2009288pp • 47 bw illus • 244 x 172 mmHB 978 1 84520 361 0 £60.00/$120.00

A CULTURAL HISTORY OF ANIMALS IN THE AGE OF EMpIREEdited by Kathleen Kete

A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire explores the cultural position of animals in the period from 1800 to 1920. This was a time of extraordinary social, political and economic change as the Western world rapidly industrialized and modernized.


A CULTURAL HISTORY OF ANIMALS IN THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENTEdited by Matthew Senior

The period of the Enlightenment saw great changes in the way animals were seen. In 1600, “beasts” were still seen as the foils and adversaries of human reason, By 1800, animals had become exemplars of sentiment and compassion, the new standards of truth and morals.


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A CULTURAL HISTORY OF ANIMALS IN THE MEDIEVAL AGEEdited by Brigitte Resl

A Cultural History of Animals in the Medieval Age investigates the changing roles of animals in medieval culture, economy and society in the period 1000 to 1400. The period saw significant changes in scientific and philosophical approaches to animals as well as their representation in art.


A CULTURAL HISTORY OF ANIMALS IN THE MODERN AGEEdited by Randy Malamud

An overview of the period, containing essays on the position of animals in contemporary Symbolism, Hunting, Domestication, Sports and Entertainment, Science, philosophy, and Art.


A CULTURAL HISTORY OF ANIMALS IN THE RENAISSANCEEdited by Bruce Boehrer

Covering the period 1400 to 1600, this volume explores a wide range of topics: the symbolic role of birds in early modern writing; hunting rites and animal rights; the domestication of animals; the popularity of performing animals; the development of illustrated works of natural history; changing philosophical views of animal nature; and artistic practice in the visual representation of animals.

April 2009288 pp • 37 bw illus • 244 x 172 mmHB 978 1 84520 395 5 £60.00/$120.00

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A CULTURAL HISTORY OF CHILDHOOD AND FAMILYEdited by Elizabeth Foyster and James Marten

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The period spanning the 15th to the 17th Century saw an unprecedented interest in childrearing and the family. Renaissance humanist thought valued the education of children whilst promoting the family as a mirror of a well-ordered society, based on class, gender and age hierarchies. protestant and Catholic Reformers and state-sponsored disciplinary measures further reinforced authority within the family. The proliferation of printed books and artworks representing the family popularized models of domestic life across Europe and its newly acquired colonies. At the same time, high mortality, repeated wars, poverty, increased migration, and geographical mobility severely undermined these idealized notions of family and childhood.

Volume 3: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF CHILDHOOD AND FAMILY IN THE RENAISSANCEEdited by Sandra Cavallo, Royal Holloway, University of London, & Silvia Evangelisti, University of East Anglia

CONTENTS:Introduction, Sandra Cavallo, Royal Holloway and Silvia Evangelisti, University of East Anglia1. Family Relationships, Sandra Cavallo, Royal Holloway 2. Community, Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos, University of Ben-Gurion 3. Economy, Cordelia Beattie, University of Edinburgh4. Geography and the Environment, Marta Ajmar-Wollheim, Victoria and Albert Museum5. Education, Anna Bellavitis, University Paris 106. Life Cycle, Philippa Maddern with Stephanie Tarbin University of Western Australia7. The State, Julie Hardwick, University of Texas8. Faith and Religion, Silvia Evangelisti, University of East Anglia9. Health and Science, Susan Broomhall, University of Western Australia10. World Contexts, James Casey, University of East AngliaNotes / Bibliography / Index

Volume 4: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF CHILDHOOD AND FAMILY IN THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENTEdited by Elizabeth Foyster, University of Cambridge, and James Marten, Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

During the Enlightenment (1650-1800), traditional family roles were rethought, questioning much which had been taken for granted, such as the innate nature of children. At the same time, the Enlightenment also reinforced many long-held notions, applying new ideas to perpetuate assumptions about gender and race. The commercialization of agriculture, industrialization and urbanization, as well as the opportunities presented by expanding education and the sale of domestic goods, all impacted on the family. Further, the continuing expansion of Western empires, the ownership of slaves within American states, and the political turmoil of the American and French revolutions all helped to shape both the ideals and the actuality of family life.

CONTENTS:Introduction1. Family Relationships, Joanne Bailey, Oxford Brookes University2. Community, Alysa Levene, Oxford Brookes University3. Economy, Deborah Simonton, University of Southern Denmark4. Geography and the Environment, Giorgio Riello, University of Warwick5. Education, Valentina K. Tikoff, De Paul University6. Life Cycle, Mary Abbott, Anglia Ruskin University7. The State, Steven King, Oxford Brookes University8. Faith and Religion, Allison P. Coudert, University of California-Davis9. Health and Science, Mary Lindemann, University of Miami10. World Contexts, Adriana S. Benzaquen, Mount Saint Vincent UniversityNotes / Bibliography / Index

Volume 5: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF CHILDHOOD AND FAMILY IN THE AGE OF EMpIREEdited by Colin Heywood, University of Nottingham

The nineteenth century brought a decisive shift towards a “modern” form of childhood, one protected from the hazards and responsibilities of adulthood. Families in the West began to expect children to go to school rather than to work, to play in parks and playgrounds rather than to roam the streets, and to be kept healthy under the watchful eye of doctors and nurses. In response to both the demands and the depredations of the Industrial Revolution, the period saw unprecedented state intervention in such areas as education and health care reform.

CONTENTS:Introduction1. Family Relationships, James Marten, Marquette University2. Community, Marilyn Irvin Holt, Independent Scholar3. Economy, Carolyn Tuttle, Lake Forest College4. Geography and the Environment, Ning de Coninck-Smith, Danish University of Education5. Education, Bengt Sandin, University of Linköping6. Life Cycle, Carl Ipsen, University of Indiana7. The State, Rachel Fuchs, Arizona State University8. Faith and Religion, Christina de Bellaigue, Exeter College, Oxford9. Health and Science, Richard Meckel, Brown University10. World Contexts, David Pomfret, University of Hong KongNotes / Bibliography / Index

Few persons living in 1900 could have imagined what life would be like for children and families by the start of the 21st Century. The 20th Century brought improved nutrition, widespread immunization, lower mortality rates, greater access to schooling, more opportunities for communication and learning, and better legal protection for children. However, these achievements should be balanced by a recognition of the failure to protect and promote “the best interests of the child” and the family over this period. Wars, economic depression, exploitation, commodification, abuse, and discrimination – on the basis of ethnicity, race, gender, and class - all damaged children and families.

Volume 6: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF CHILDHOOD AND FAMILY IN THE MODERN AGEEdited by Joseph M. Hawes, University of Memphis, and N. Ray Hiner, University of Kansas

CONTENTS:Introduction1. Family Relationships, David Barrett and Maria Kukhareva, both University of Bedforshire2. Community, Mona Gleason and Veronica Strong-Boag, both University of British Columbia3. Economy, Lisa Jacobson and Erika Rappaport, both University of California at Santa Barbara4. Environment, Pamela Rhiney-Kerberg, Iowa State University5. Education, William J Reese, University of Wisconsin-Madison6. Life Cycle, Katherine Jellison, Ohio University7. The State, Kriste Lindenmeyer, University of Maryland, and Jeanine Graham, University of Waikato8. Faith and Religion, Jon Pahl, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia9. Health and Science, Doug Imig and Frances Wright, both University of Memphis10. World Contexts, Jeanine Graham, University of WaikatoNotes / Bibliography / Index

Publishing in February 2010ISBN: 978 1 84520 495 2£350 / $550

A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE HUMAN BODYEdited by Linda Kalof and William Bynum

Publishing in May 2010ISBN: 978 1 84520 826 4£350 / $550

A CULTURAL HISTORY OF CHILDHOOD AND FAMILYEdited by Elizabeth Foyster, University of Cambridge, and James Marten, Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

May 20106 volumes • 1600pp • 300 bw illus • 244 x 172mmHB 978 1 84520 826 4 £350 / $550

Childhood and families had a ubiquitous and central presence in the ancient world, but one which is often hidden from us. Underlying our understanding of childhood and the family in Antiquity are the key thinkers and writers of the period. Their ideas on children, growing up, and the stages of life has shaped thinking on these subjects right up to the present day. Focusing on the cultures of the Mediterranean from 800 BCE to 800 CE, A Cultural History of Childhood and the Family in Antiquity covers the rise of democratic Athens, the Hellenistic World and the evolution and transformation of the Roman Empire.

Volume 1: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF CHILDHOOD AND FAMILY IN ANTIqUITYEdited by Mary Harlow and Ray Laurence, both University of Birmingham

CONTENTS:Introduction1. Family Relations, Mary Harlow2. Community, Ray Laurence3. Economy, Lena Larsson Lovén and Agneta Strömberg, both University of Gothenburg4. Geography and Environment, Louise Revell, University of Southampton5. Education, Christian Laes, Antwerp University6. Life Cycle, Tim Parkin, University of Manchester7. The State, Jo-Ann Shelton, University of California, Santa Barbara8. Faith and Religion, Ville Vuolanto, University of Tampere9. Health and Science, Patricia Baker, University of Kent10. World Contexts, Mary Harlow and Ray LaurenceNotes / Bibliography / Index

Volume 2: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF CHILDHOOD AND FAMILY IN THE MIDDLE AGESEdited by Louise J. Wilkinson, Canterbury Christ Church University

The Middle Ages (800-1400) were a rich and vibrant period in the history of European culture, society and intellectual thought. Emerging state powers, economic expansion and contraction, the growing influence of the Christian Church, and demographic change all influenced the ideals and realities of childhood and family life. Movements for Church reform brought the spiritual and moral concerns of the laity into sharper focus, profoundly shaping attitudes towards gender and sexuality and how these might be applied to family roles. At the same time the growth of trade, the spread of literacy and learning, shifting patterns of settlement, and the process of urbanisation transformed childhood.

CONTENTS:Introduction1. Family Relationships, P.J.P. Goldberg, University of York2. Community, Jennifer C. Ward, Goldsmiths College, University of London (retired)3. Economy, Phillipp Schofield, Aberystwyth University4. Geography and the Environment, Sophia Adams, Canterbury Christ Church University5. Education, Louise J. Wilkinson, Canterbury Christ Church University6. Life Cycle, Deborah Youngs, Swansea University7. The State, Richard Huscroft, Westminster School8. Faith and Religion, Valerie L. Garver, Northern Illinois University 9. Health and Science, William F. MacLehose, University College London10. World Contexts, Carol Bargeron, Central State University, OhioNotes / Bibliography / Index

• Two, new, exciting cultural histories from Berg, each comprised of 6 chronological volumes

• Each presents an authoritative survey from antiquity to the present, covering almost three millennia of human history

• Volumes within each cultural history assess the same key themes, meaning readers can either gain a broad overview of each period, or follow a theme through history

• Each presents the research of an international range of leading scholars

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