![]() ![]() ![]() 2018 by Jack Hartnell (Author) 240 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition £5.22 Read with Our Free App Audiobook £0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover £12.32 Other used from £12.11 Paperback £11. ![]() 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.īringing 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: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages (Wellcome Collection) Hardcover 29 Mar. ![]() 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. 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. Shop bookandmortars closet or find the perfect look from millions of stylists. Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages Kindle Edition by Jack Hartnell (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 64 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 14.81 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love and had children. ![]()
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