Windows of the soul : physiognomy in European culture 1470-1780 /
In early modern Europe there was a small group of books on the art of physiognomy which claimed to provide self-knowledge through an interpretation of external features. The authors of these books explained how the eyes, the face, and all of nature's natural bodies became windows of the soul. D...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. |
| Series: | Oxford historical monographs.
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