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The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine

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  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. Corinne Saunders

    1. Durham University, UK

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  2. Jane Macnaughton

    1. Durham University, UK

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  3. David Fuller

    1. Durham University, UK

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • David Fuller, Corinne Saunders, Jane Macnaughton
      Pages 1-17

  3. Mind, Body, Soul

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Beautiful Ideas: The Visibility of Truth

      • Mark A. McIntosh
      Pages 21-34

    3. Beauty, Virtue and Danger in Medieval English Romance

      • Corinne Saunders
      Pages 35-52

    4. Bathing for Beauty in the Middle Ages

      • Elizabeth Archibald
      Pages 53-71

    5. Posture is Beauty

      • Sander L. Gilman
      Pages 72-83

  6. Rescuing Beauty

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235
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    2. Beauty in the Brain of the Beholder: Art, Neural Plasticity and Visual Pleasure

      • John Onians
      Pages 237-253

    3. The Pendulum of Taste: Architecture and the Rise of a State Aesthetic

      • Simon Thurley
      Pages 254-270

    4. Beauty and the Sacred

      • Roger Scruton
      Pages 271-278
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An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking whether it is possible to 'recover beauty'.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Durham University, UK

    Corinne Saunders, Jane Macnaughton, David Fuller

About the editors

Elizabeth Archibald, Durham University, UK David Bintley, Birmingham Royal Ballet, UK David Fuller, University of Durham, UK Sander L. Gilman, Emory University, USA Ludmilla Jordanova, Durham University, UK Jane Macnaughton, Durham University, UK Mark A. McIntosh, Loyola University Chicago, USA John Onians, University of East Anglia, UK Michael Symmons Roberts, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Corinne Saunders, Durham University, UK Roger Scruton, independent scholar, UK Simon Thurley, English Heritage, UK Anne Whitehead, Newcastle University, UK

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