Tillmann Taape
Biographic Data
| ID | 5846188 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tillmann Taape |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tillmann |
| FAMILY NAME | Taape |
| SIGNATURE | TAAPE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2805-2326 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Do nam er die zang in sin hant“
This article explores the language of hands and manual gestures in two of the earliest printed texts on surgery, written in German by the Strasbourg practitioners Hieronymus Brunschwig and Hans von Gersdorff. Going back to the medieval learned tradition, surgeons regularly invoke the etymological root of surgery or cirurgia in the Greek word for hand and use this trope to demarcate their expertise from that of learned physicians who were said to …
Common Medicine for the Common Man
The disruptive figure of the “striped layman” appeared in printed texts and images around the year 1500 in the southern German lands. This essay shows how it came to represent a new kind of reader of vernacular medical publications. Exploring the illustrated books of the Strasbourg surgeon-apothecary Hieronymus Brunschwig, their local context of humanist discourse, and the visual practice of their publisher, Johann Grüninger, I argue that their o…
Schooling the Eye and Hand
What are historians doing in the laboratory? Looking back over six years of collaborative work, researchers of the Making and Knowing Project at Columbia University discuss their experience with hands‐on reconstruction as a historical method. This work engages practical forms of knowledge—from pigment‐making to metal casting—recorded in the BnF Ms. Fr. 640, an anonymous French manuscript compiled in the later sixteenth century. Bodily encounters …
The Matter of Ephemeral Art
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The Matter of Ephemeral Art
International audience
Schooling the Eye and Hand
What are historians doing in the laboratory? Looking back over six years of collaborative work, researchers of the Making and Knowing Project at Columbia University discuss their experience with hands‐on reconstruction as a historical method. This work engages practical forms of knowledge—from pigment‐making to metal casting—recorded in the BnF Ms. Fr. 640, an anonymous French manuscript compiled in the later sixteenth century. Bodily encounters …
The Matter of Ephemeral Art
International audience
Common Medicine for the Common Man
The disruptive figure of the “striped layman” appeared in printed texts and images around the year 1500 in the southern German lands. This essay shows how it came to represent a new kind of reader of vernacular medical publications. Exploring the illustrated books of the Strasbourg surgeon-apothecary Hieronymus Brunschwig, their local context of humanist discourse, and the visual practice of their publisher, Johann Grüninger, I argue that their o…
Do nam er die zang in sin hant“
This article explores the language of hands and manual gestures in two of the earliest printed texts on surgery, written in German by the Strasbourg practitioners Hieronymus Brunschwig and Hans von Gersdorff. Going back to the medieval learned tradition, surgeons regularly invoke the etymological root of surgery or cirurgia in the Greek word for hand and use this trope to demarcate their expertise from that of learned physicians who were said to …
Art (3 works) · Historical Art and Culture Studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Craft (2 works) · German (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works)