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Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages (Wellcome Collection) - Softcover

Hartnell, Jack

 
9781781256800: Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages (Wellcome Collection)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1781256802 ISBN 13: 9781781256800
Verlag: Wellcome Collection, 2019

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A glittering and gruesome history of the body in the Middle Ages, loved by critics and readers alike

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Jack Hartnell is Lecturer in Art History at the University of East Anglia, where his research and teaching focuses on the visual culture of medieval and early modern Europe and the Middle East. He has previously held positions at Columbia University, The Courtauld Institute of Art, the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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Dripping with blood and gold, fetishized and tortured, gateway to earthly delights and point of contact with the divine, forcibly divided and powerful even beyond death, there was no territory more contested than the body in the medieval world.

In Medieval Bodies, art historian Jack Hartnell uncovers the complex and fascinating ways in which the people of the Middle Ages thought about, explored and experienced their physical selves. In paintings and reliquaries that celebrated the - sometimes bizarre - martyrdoms of saints, the sacred dimension of the physical left its mark on their environment. In literature and politics, hearts and heads became powerful metaphors that shaped governance and society in ways that are still visible today. And doctors and natural philosophers were at the centre of a collision between centuries of sophisticated medical knowledge, and an ignorance of physiology as profound as its results were gruesome.
Like a medieval pageant, this striking and unusual history brings together medicine, art, poetry, music, politics, cultural and social history and philosophy to reveal what life was really like for the men and women who lived and died in the Middle Ages.
Medieval Bodies is published in association with Wellcome Collection.

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Verlag
Wellcome Collection
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1781256802
ISBN 13 
9781781256800
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
352
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