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Hartnell, Jack

 
9781781256794: Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1781256799 ISBN 13 : 9781781256794
Editeur : Wellcome Collection, 2018

Synopsis

A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR

A major new talent unveils a glittering and gruesome history of the body in the Middle Ages, from saints' relics to lovesick troubadours

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

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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Éditeur
Wellcome Collection
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1781256799
ISBN 13 
9781781256794
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
352
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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