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'The tempting girl, I know so well': Representations of Gout and the Self-Fashioning of Bohemian Humanist Scholars
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SYSNO ASEP 0469837 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title 'The tempting girl, I know so well': Representations of Gout and the Self-Fashioning of Bohemian Humanist Scholars Author(s) Storchová, Lucie (FLU-F) RID, ORCID, SAI Source Title Early Science and Medicine. - : Brill - ISSN 1383-7427
Roč. 21, č. 6 (2016), s. 511-530Number of pages 20 s. Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country NL - Netherlands Keywords Bohemian Lands ; humanism ; Neo-latin poetry ; gout ; representation Subject RIV AB - History R&D Projects GB14-37038G GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF) Institutional support FLU-F - RVO:67985955 UT WOS 000393632000002 EID SCOPUS 85011269717 DOI 10.1163/15733823-00216P02 Annotation The current study deals with the representation of gout in Bohemian humanist literature and its impact on the cultural definitions of being a humanist scholar from the 1550s to the 1620s. Bohemian humanists produced a number of brief autobiographical remarks and lengthy Latin poems dealing with gout or its personified form, podagra. After analysing Bohemian medical treatises, the author focuses on the gout-related imagery from a gender perspective. The main section of the study deals with how the disease was gendered on the level of argument and figurative speech, how its/her body and the relationships to humanist poets were described, which features were related to its/her victims and what this imagery could mean for the ways in which humanists fashioned themselves in their correspondence or casual poetry. Last but not least, the author demonstrates how gout-related imagery intermingled with social elitist discourses which enabled the articulation of the social superiority of humanist scholars and posed a challenge to the period’s social hierarchies. Workplace Institute of Philosophy Contact Chlumská Simona, chlumska@flu.cas.cz ; Tichá Zuzana, asep@flu.cas.cz Tel: 221 183 360 Year of Publishing 2017
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