5/8/2023 0 Comments Medieval bodies jack hartnell![]() ![]() “A shared classical heritage undeniably binds together the medieval history of the regions on all sides of the Mediterranean,” writes the author, “separating them somewhat from the busy parallel stories of the Far East, India, China, sub-Saharan Africa or the pre-Columbian Americas. The key to understanding this era is the interaction among diverse cultures. of East Anglia, Norwich) uses his knowledge of art history and the drawings and paintings that showed then-current thinking on organs, bones, blood, and the body in general. In his debut book, Hartnell (Art History/Univ. Some readers may be put off initially by this head-to-toe dissection of the body, but they should press on to encounter a delightful mixture of thought, experiment, discovery, and religion. An in-depth look at the medieval conception of the human body. ![]()
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