Visualizing Household Health by Jennifer Borland

Author:Jennifer Borland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Aldobrandino, da Siena, –1287. Régime du corps—Illustrations, Medicine, Medieval—Europe, Medical care—Europe—History—To 1500, Women—Health and hygiene—Europe—History—To 1500, Historiated initials—Europe—History—To 1500
Publisher: Penn State University Press

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HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT, STATUS, AND THE CARE OF THE BODY

One of the most memorable images from any of the illustrated Régime manuscripts depicts a poor soul in the throes of vomiting (fig. 69). A very large and multicolored stream rushes from the man’s mouth, immediately communicating the content of the chapter. Despite the Arsenal manuscript’s limited color palette, the artist was clearly unencumbered, scaling the vomit to be nearly the same size as the patient’s body and removing any background objects that might be distractions. As viewers today, we are inclined to respond to this image with entertained surprise or even mild disgust at the volume of material spewed forth, both responses that suggest that we were not expecting to see this image in such a fancy book.

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