All Outputs (11)

Shakespeare’s Anatomies of Death (2016)
Book Chapter
Sugg, R. (2016). Shakespeare’s Anatomies of Death. In M. Neill, & D. Schalkwyk (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of Shakespearean tragedy (184-201). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198724193.013.12

Lessons from the body: practices of dissection and anatomy (2016)
Book Chapter
Sugg, R. (2016). Lessons from the body: practices of dissection and anatomy. In B. Smith (Ed.), The Cambridge guide to the worlds of Shakespeare (802-810). Cambridge University Press

Flame into Being: Spirits, Soul, and the Physiology of Early Modern Devotion (2016)
Journal Article
Sugg, R. (2016). Flame into Being: Spirits, Soul, and the Physiology of Early Modern Devotion. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 46(1), 141-165. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-3343171

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, human physiology was mediated by the vital spirits. These fine vapors of heated blood and air not only linked body and soul, but were central to processes and ideas of generation, sight, mind-body unity, mu... Read More about Flame into Being: Spirits, Soul, and the Physiology of Early Modern Devotion.

The Smoke of the Soul: Medicine, Physiology and Religion in Early Modern England. (2013)
Book
Sugg, R. (2013). The Smoke of the Soul: Medicine, Physiology and Religion in Early Modern England. Palgrave Macmillan

What was the soul? For hundreds of years Christians agreed that it was the essential, immortal core of each individual believer, and of the Christian faith in general. Despite this, there was no agreement on where the soul was, what it was, or how it... Read More about The Smoke of the Soul: Medicine, Physiology and Religion in Early Modern England..

The Secret History of the Soul: Physiology, Magic and Spirit Forces from Homer to St Paul (2013)
Book
Sugg, R. (2013). The Secret History of the Soul: Physiology, Magic and Spirit Forces from Homer to St Paul. Cambridge Scholars Publishing

The Anatomical Web: Literary Dissection from Castiglione to Cromwell (2012)
Book Chapter
Sugg, R. (2012). The Anatomical Web: Literary Dissection from Castiglione to Cromwell. In S. Pender, & N. Struever (Eds.), Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe (83-110). Ashgate Publishing

Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: the History of Corpse Medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians (2011)
Book
Sugg, R. (2011). Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: the History of Corpse Medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians. Routledge

Murder after Death: Literature and Anatomy in Early Modern England (2007)
Book
Sugg, R. (2007). Murder after Death: Literature and Anatomy in Early Modern England. Cornell University Press

John Donne (2007)
Book
Sugg, R. (2007). John Donne. Palgrave Macmillan

This critical introduction to the work of John Donne makes a valuable contribution to the study of one of the most popular and enduring English Renaissance writers. Richard Sugg provides students with a coherent overview of Donne's work, life and tim... Read More about John Donne.

'Good Physic but Bad Food': Early Modern Attitudes to Medicinal Cannibalism and its Suppliers (2006)
Journal Article
Sugg, R. (2006). 'Good Physic but Bad Food': Early Modern Attitudes to Medicinal Cannibalism and its Suppliers. Social History of Medicine, 19(2), 225-240. https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkl001

The subject of medicinal cannibalism in mainstream western medicine has received surprisingly little historical attention. This paper argues that this phenomenon, far from being as marginal as its neglected status might imply, was closely integrated... Read More about 'Good Physic but Bad Food': Early Modern Attitudes to Medicinal Cannibalism and its Suppliers.

'Adding to the world' : colonial adventure and anxiety in the works of John Donne (2002)
Book Chapter
Sugg, R. (2002). 'Adding to the world' : colonial adventure and anxiety in the works of John Donne. In C. Jowitt, & D. Watt (Eds.), The arts of 17th-century science : representations of the natural world in European and North American culture (217-232). Ashgate Publishing