Buy this book on-line HARTNELL, JACK: : MEDIEVAL BODIES: Life, Death and Art in the Middle AgesLONDON.PROFILE BOOKS LTD./in association with WELLCOME COLLECTION,2018. ISBN 9781781256794.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn. [Complete number line 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2,so 1st edn,2nd imp.] FINE+/FINE+. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt colour pictorial illustrated imagery with gilt decoration to front of dw/dj with capitalised,red-lettered part-title and black-lettered sub-title in a rectanguler cream panel with a single line gilt border and author's capitalised,white-lettered name to lower edge; spine/backstrip with repeated red part-title as front's and author's capitalised black-lettered name and association publisher's [wellcome collection] white-lettered name to foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with thumbnail colour illustration of human body+skeleton viewed from the rear and 2 critic's brown+ red lettered reviews.Top+fore-edges bright, crisp and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread other than my own collation. Publisher's bright, crisp,clean, unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt lettered spine/backstrip,a green+red striped headband and immaculate colour pictorial,medieval Catalan Map illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, illustrated,1st edn,1-345pp [paginated] includes chapter on: Medieval Bodies, Head, Senses, Skin, Bone, Heart, Blood, Hands, Stomach, Genitals, Feet and Future Bodies with profuse (88) facsimile medieval colour illustration reproductions,and b/w+ colour photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book,Acknowledgements,a 25pp Bibliography,an Illustrations list/table and an Index; plus [unpaginated] half-title +title pages,and a Contents list/table with a colour photographic frntis to its reverse.
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,from Byzantium and Baghda to Nuremburg and Norwich.In paintings and reliquaries that celebrated the - sometimes bizarre - martyrdoms of saints,the sacred and spiritual dimension of the physical and familiar 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.
Peopled with saints,soldiers,kings,queens, caliphs,knights,monks and monstrous beasts, this striking and unusual history unfolds like a medieval pageant.Bringing 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.
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