Jack Hartnell points to the common humanity between our modern selves and the men (and women!) who left behind these Medieval writings.
Norton
9781324002161
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Norton
9781324002161
Jack Hartnell points to the common humanity between our modern selves and the men (and women!) who left behind these Medieval writings.
Perusing the pages of Jack Hartnell’s gloriously illustrated Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages, my eye caught on an elegant depiction of a tree, reproduced from a 15th-century German manuscript and surrounded by pear-shaped vials and delicate writing. Enchanted, I stopped to admire it and read the accompanying caption: “A wheel of…
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