MILENA LENDEROVÁ, VLADAN HANULÍK, DANIELA TINKOVÁ (edd.), History of the Body: Sources, Concepts, Historiography. Červený Kostelec 2014, Pavel Mervart, 264s. MILENA LENDEROVÁ, VLADAN HANULÍK, DANIELA TINKOVÁ (edd.), Body between Medicine and Discipline: transformations of the medical image and ideal of human body and embodiment in the long 19th century. Praha 2014, NLN 642s
2015
Abstract
Review of two recent books on the history of body and embodiment in the Czech lands, 19th-20th century. Both books were collective monographs made the same collective of authors: Milena Lenderová, Daniela Tinková a Vladan Hanulík.
The review evaluates the contribution of the two books to the ongoing debates about body and embodiment in the history of Czech lands in the 19th and the 20th century. Author positively asses mainly that the collective of editors opened up particular new topics related to the issue of body and that they displayed a great work with sources.