Vanities of the Eye Vision in Early Modern European Culture
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Biografisk notat
Stuart Clark was born in 1942 in Marple, Cheshire. He studied at University of Wales, Swansea and at Cambridge. He was senior lecturer in the Department of History at UW Swansea from 1995-98 and then Professor from 1998 to the present. He has been a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and Lilly Fellow at the National Humanities Centre, North Carolina. He was elected to the British Academy in 2000.[A] densely argued work.
British Journal for the History of Science
A major intellectual triumph, an indispensible and enlightening read for all those interested in the early modern body and its senses.
History Workshop Journal
[This book is] based on prodigiously wide reading and solid scholarship.
The English Historical Review
This book offers much new information on attitudes during the early modern period, attitudes that have been historically neglected ... [An] important piece of research.
Early Popular Visual Culture
...compelling...Vanities of the Eye offers readers a taste of the unexpected and fruitful complexities to be gained by turning a serious eye to the historical questions of sight.
Yvonne Gasper Institute for Historical Review
A densely argued but wonderfully subtle exploration of how, from the 15th to the 17th centuries, people developed a complex understanding of the relationship between what was seen and what was known.
PD Smith, The Guardian
Vanities of the Eye is dense with examples of the interpenetration of the weird, the wondrous and the mundane, drawn from a deep well of scholarship... A thoroughly satisfying read... 9 out of 10
Fortean Times
an impressive and authoritative contribution to the cultural historu of sight that will provide a substantial resource for scholars working in a number of fields.
Jane Partner, Renaissance Quarterly