Carved into the Flesh
Barbara Newman: Medieval Bodies, 11 October 2018
Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages
by Jack Hartnell.
Wellcome, 346 pp., £25, March 2018,978 1 78125 679 4 Show More
by Jack Hartnell.
Wellcome, 346 pp., £25, March 2018,
“... For medievalists, the bodily turn has had a profound impact not just on the histories of medicine and sexuality, as one would expect, but also on those of art, religion and ideas. Thirty-five years or so after the body emerged as a newly problematic category, an entity with a tangled history or a rebellious subaltern that had finally found its voice, ‘medieval bodies’ have become such a rich field of inquiry that Jack Hartnell can use them to ground a History of Everything for the common reader: ‘life, death and art in the Middle Ages ... ”