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portada Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
2019
Language
English
Pages
352
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
23.6 x 17.3 x 2.5 cm
Weight
0.68 kg.
ISBN13
9781324002161
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Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages

Jack Hartnell (Author) · W. W. Norton & Company · Hardcover

Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages - Hartnell, Jack

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Synopsis "Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages "

Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love, and had children. And yet their lives were full of miraculous and richly metaphorical experiences radically different from our own, unfolding in a world where deadly wounds might be healed overnight by divine intervention, or where the heart of a king, plucked from his corpse, could be held aloft as a powerful symbol of political rule.In this richly illustrated and unusual history, Jack Hartnell uncovers the fascinating ways in which people thought about, explored, and experienced their physical selves in the Middle Ages, from Constantinople to Cairo and Canterbury. Unfolding like a medieval pageant, and filled with saints, soldiers, caliphs, queens, monks and monstrous beasts, this book throws light on the medieval body from head to toe--revealing the surprisingly sophisticated medical knowledge of the time.Bringing together medicine, art, music, politics, philosophy, religion, and social history, Hartnell's work is an excellent guide to what life was really like for the men and women who lived and died in the Middle Ages. Perfumed and decorated with gold, fetishized or tortured, powerful even beyond death, these medieval bodies are not passive and buried away; they can still teach us what it means to be human.

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