In late fifteenth century Florence, Renaissance humanists rediscovered a secret, natural
language hidden in the visual wisdom of the proverb'the eyes are the windows of the soul' …

When nineteenth-century Londoners looked at each other, what did they see, and how did
they want to be seen? Sharrona Pearl reveals the way that physiognomy, the study of facial …

After discussing Lavater's place in eighteenth-century German letters and his importance in
the history of Western physiognomy, Dr. Tytler examines the literary portrait in the modern …

Peter Godman presents the first intellectual history of Florentine humanism from the lifetime
of Angelo Poliziano in the later fifteenth century to the death of Niccolo Machiavelli in 1527 …

Increasingly we become aware of the medieval background of the Italian Renaissance. The
secular, worldly spirit, associated with the Renaissance and always existing in the practical …

In Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth-Century Culture, Lucy Hartley
examines the emergence of physiognomy as a form of popular science. Physiognomy …

European thought begins with the Greeks. Scientific and philosophic thinking--the pursuit of
truth and the grasping of unchanging principles of life--is a historical development, an …

In the Middle Ages both sides of human consciousness-that which was turned within as that
which was turned without-lay dreaming or half awake beneath a common veil. The veil was …

" Physiognomy in Profile affirms and assesses Lavater's contribution to European culture in
the two hundred years after his death. It examines how Lavater's vision of physiognomy as a …

Through extensive readings in philosophical, legal, medical, and imaginative writing, this
book explores notions and experiences of being a person from European antiquity to …