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

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...
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Author: Jack Hartnell
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Language: English
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Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages by Hartnell, Jack

Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages

Dhs. 169.47

Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages

Dhs. 169.47
Author: Jack Hartnell
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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.



Author: Jack Hartnell
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 11/12/2019
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.80w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781324002161


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2019
Publishers Weekly 10/14/2019
Booklist 10/15/2019 pg. 13
BookPage 11/01/2019
Library Journal 09/27/2019 pg. 1
Shelf Awareness 12/27/2019

About the Author
Hartnell, Jack: - Jack Hartnell is a lecturer in art history at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. He has previously held positions at Columbia University, the Courtauld Institute, the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

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