Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages
- Editore:
W W NORTON & CO
- EAN:
9781324002161
- ISBN:
1324002166
- Pagine:
- 352
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
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Descrizione 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.
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