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OverviewDedicating objects to the divine was a central component of both Greek and Roman religion. Some of the most conspicuous offerings were shaped like parts of the internal or external human body: so-called ‘anatomical votives’. These archaeological artefacts capture the modern imagination, recalling vividly the physical and fragile bodies of the past whilst posing interpretative challenges in the present. This volume scrutinises this distinctive dedicatory phenomenon, bringing together for the first time a range of methodologically diverse approaches which challenge traditional assumptions and simple categorisations. The chapters presented here ask new questions about what constitutes an anatomical votive, how they were used and manipulated in cultural, cultic and curative contexts and the complex role of anatomical votives in negotiations between humans and gods, the body and its disparate parts, divine and medical healing, ancient assemblages and modern collections and collectors. In seeking to re-contextualise and re-conceptualise anatomical votives this volume uniquely juxtaposes the medical with the religious, the social with the conceptual, the idea of the body in fragments with the body whole and the museum with the sanctuary, crossing the boundaries between studies of ancient religion, medicine, the body and the reception of antiquity. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jane Draycott , Emma-Jayne GrahamPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9780367595579ISBN 10: 0367595575 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 30 June 2020 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Preface Abbreviations Introduction: Debating the Anatomical Votive Emma-Jayne Graham and Jane Draycott Chapter 1: Corpora in Connection: Anatomical Votives and the Confession Stelai of Lydia and Phrygia Justine Potts Chapter 2: Partible Humans and Permeable Gods: Anatomical Votives and Personhood in the Sanctuaries of Central Italy Emma-Jayne Graham Chapter 3: Anatomical Votives (and Swaddled Babies): from Republican Italy to Roman Gaul Olivier de Cazanove Chapter 4: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: The Use of Real, False and Artificial Hair as Votive Offerings Jane Draycott Chapter 5: Demeter as an Ophthalmologist? Eye Votives and the Cult of Demeter and Kore Georgia Petridou Chapter 6: Wombs for the Gods Rebecca Flemming Chapter 7: Ritual and Meaning: Contextualising Votive Terracotta Infants in Hellenistic Italy Fay Glinister Chapter 8: The foot as gnṓrisma Sara Chiarini Chapter 9: The Open Man: Anatomical Votive Busts Between the History of Medicine and Archaeology Laurent Haumesser Chapter 10: Fragmentation and the Body’s Boundaries: Reassessing the Body in Parts Ellen Adams Chapter 11: Votive Genitalia in the Wellcome Collection: Modern Receptions of Ancient Sexual Anatomy Jen Grove Chapter 12: Votive Futures: an Afterword Jessica Hughes Bibliography IndexReviews"""...this volume accomplishes its goals well and paves the way for future studies on anatomical votives beyond the typological. The authors show that such dedications were not limited to the healing sanctuaries of Classical Greece and that their meanings went beyond simple equations between object and body."" - Debby Sneed, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018 ""The editors' introduction lays out the inherent problems, challenges, and questions related to this material, such as definitions and terminology, ancient contexts, medical significance, and meanings with the religious setting. This is an ambitious attempt to bring together many different types, times, and places of relevance, as well as to present 'deliberately diverse approaches' to the archaeological material. Also welcome are chapters that incorporate the appearance of anatomical votices in modern art or their role in modern collecting ... Several themes cut across the chapters, including gender, age, and social status, as well as physical appearance, sexuality, reproduction, and personhood.[...]Ultimately, this book contributes to pan-Mediterranean conversations about ancient religion, trade, and sea routes over a long period, and adds to an expanding corpus of studies devoted to individual deities."" - Tyler Jo Smith, University of Virginia, USA, Religious Studies Review 2017 ""Although it is focused on Classical Antiquity strictly defined, the work will be of interest to Byzantinist-historians of medicine as it opens new perspectives for the analysis of an archeological genre all too often neglected."" -Touwaide, Byzantinische Zeitschrift issue 110 (= 2017/4). ""In short, the essays assembled in this volume offer a rich and rewarding assortment of perspectives from which to view the practice of dedicating the material representation of a body part at a sanctuary of later curating such an object in a collection focused on medical history or reimagining the fragmented human body in a work of art.; - Rebecca Miller Ammerman, Colgate University ""The book offers a series of remarkably detailed studies on the sensory culture of ancient Rome. [...]for me, the book’s central and most important contribution: we might be able to pretend a kind of neutrality, transparency, or objectivity when we offer a critical edition or reconstruct an ancient battle. But such pretense is utterly impossible when it comes to sensory history, for the simple reason that we have to use our own senses as part of the scholarly apparatus."" -Sean Gurd, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA, Greek and Roman Musical Studies" ...this volume accomplishes its goals well and paves the way for future studies on anatomical votives beyond the typological. The authors show that such dedications were not limited to the healing sanctuaries of Classical Greece and that their meanings went beyond simple equations between object and body. - Debby Sneed, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018 The editors' introduction lays out the inherent problems, challenges, and questions related to this material, such as definitions and terminology, ancient contexts, medical significance, and meanings with the religious setting. This is an ambitious attempt to bring together many different types, times, and places of relevance, as well as to present 'deliberately diverse approaches' to the archaeological material. Also welcome are chapters that incorporate the appearance of anatomical votices in modern art or their role in modern collecting ... Several themes cut across the chapters, including gender, age, and social status, as well as physical appearance, sexuality, reproduction, and personhood. - Tyler Jo Smith, University of Virginia, USA, Religious Studies Review 2017 Although it is focused on Classical Antiquity strictly defined, the work will be of interest to Byzantinist-historians of medicine as it opens new perspectives for the analysis of an archeological genre all too often neglected. -Touwaide, Byzantinische Zeitschrift issue 110 (= 2017/4). In short, the essays assembled in this volume offer a rich and rewarding assortment of perspectives from which to view the practice of dedicating the material representation of a body part at a sanctuary of later curating such an object in a collection focused on medical history or reimagining the fragmented human body in a work of art.; - Rebecca Miller Ammerman, Colgate University Author InformationJane Draycott is Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Research Fellow in Ancient Science and Technology at the University of Glasgow, UK. Her research focuses on health and well-being in antiquity. She has published on a wide range of subjects relating to the history and archaeology of medicine. Emma-Jayne Graham is Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at The Open University, UK. Her research focuses on the archaeology of Roman Italy, with a particular interest in the treatment of the body and its representation in material culture. She has published on mortuary practices, infant health and death, sensory experience and the materiality of votive religion. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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