Cranioklepty
grave robbing and the search for genius
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Word Count
77,000 words, Guess
Page Count
308 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivecraniokleptygrav00dick
- ISBN-139781932961867
- ISBN-101932961860
- Goodreads6500115
- Library of Congress Control Number2009018527
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number320493091
- Better World Books9781932961867
- Open LibraryOL23223980M
Classifications
- DDC612.7/5
- LCCQM105 .D53 2009
- LCCQM105.D53 2009
Description
Beginning dramatically with the opening of Haydn s grave two days after his death in October 1820, Cranioklepty takes us on an extraordinary history of a peculiar kind of obsession. The desire to own the skulls of the famous, for study, for sale, for public (and private) display, seems to be instinctual and irresistible in some people. The rise of Phrenology at the beginning of the 19th century only fed that fascination with the belief that genius leaves its mark on the very shape of the head. The after-death stories of Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig Beethoven, Swedenborg, Sir Thomas Browne and many others have never before been told in such detail and vividness. Fully illustrated with some surprising images, this is a fascinating and authoritative history of ideas carried along on the guilty pleasures of an anthology of real-after-life gothic tales.
Description
Presents a history of cranioklepty, the desire to possess the skulls of the brilliant and famous, either for study, for sale, or for display. Includes the after-death stories of Haydn, Beethoven, Emanuel Swedenborg, Thomas Browne, and others.
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