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Medieval Bodies - Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages (Paperback) Loot Price: R391
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Medieval Bodies - Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages (Paperback): Jack Hartnell

Medieval Bodies - Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages (Paperback)

Jack Hartnell

Series: Wellcome Collection

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A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR

'A triumph' Guardian

'Glorious ... makes the past at once familiar, exotic and thrilling.' Dominic Sandbrook

'A brilliant book' Mail on Sunday

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 to our own, unfolding in a world where deadly wounds might be healed overnight by divine intervention, or 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, it throws light on the medieval body from head to toe - revealing the surprisingly sophisticated medical knowledge of the time in the process.

Bringing together medicine, art, music, politics, philosophy and social history, there is no better guide to what life was really like for the men and women who lived and died in the Middle Ages.

Medieval Bodies is published in association with Wellcome Collection.

General

Imprint: Wellcome Collection
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Wellcome Collection
Release date: February 2019
First published: 2018
Authors: Jack Hartnell
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 978-1-78125-680-0
Categories: Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine
Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 500 CE to 1400 > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500
Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500
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LSN: 1-78125-680-2
Barcode: 9781781256800

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