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Medieval bodies : life, death and art in the Middle Ages Cover Image Book

Medieval bodies : life, death and art in the Middle Ages / Jack Hartnell.

Hartnell, Jack, (author.).

Summary:

"With wit, wisdom, and a sharp scalpel, Jack Hartnell dissects the medieval body and offers a remedy to our preconceptions. Medieval beliefs about the body were drastically different from ours today: Hair was thought to be a condensation of fumes emitted from the pores, ideas were supposedly committed to memory by being directly imprinted on the brain, and the womb of a goat was believed to function as a contraceptive. But while this medieval medicine now seems archaic, it also made a critical contribution to modern science. Medieval Bodies guides us on a head-to-heel journey through this era's revolutionary advancements and disturbing convictions. We learn about the surgeons who dissected a living man's stomach, then sewed him up again; about the geographers who delineated racial groups by skin color; and about the practice of fasting to gain spiritual renown. Encompassing medicine and mysticism, politics and art-and complete with vivid, full-color illustrations-Medieval Bodies shows us how it felt to live and die a thousand years ago."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781324002161
  • Physical Description: 346 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First American edition.
  • Publisher: New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2019]

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General Note:
First published by Profile Books in partnership with Wellcome Collection in the UK in 2018 under the title Medieval bodies: life, death and art in the Middle Ages.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-324) and index.

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Subject: Civilization, Medieval.
Medicine, Medieval.
Human body > Social aspects > History.

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