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
Jack Hartnell is Lecturer in Art History at University of East
Anglia. He has previously held positions at Columbia University,
the Courtauld Institute, the Max-Planck-Institut and the Victoria
and Albert Museum in London.
Wellcome Collection is a free visitor destination that explores the
connections between medicine, life and art.
A brilliant book ... beautifully illustrated ... A triumphant piece
of historical writing
*Mail on Sunday*
An extraordinary story and a wonderfully rich study of the Middle
Ages ... Hartnell's idea of approaching the medieval worldview
through the body is inspired ... This beautifully illustrated book
succeeds brilliantly in bringing this much maligned period to life
... A triumph of scholarship.
*Guardian*
One of the achievements of this splendid book is to make our world
view seem more narrow and fragmented than that of the extensive
period we place somewhere between the Dark Ages and the Renaissance
... at every point you'll encounter wit, learning and riveting
stories. A wonderful read.
*Evening Standard*
An erudite, wide-ranging, thoughtfully illustrated book
*Times*
An ambitiously interdisciplinary study ... extravagantly
illustrated ... full of lively information
*Church Times*
A dazzling tour through physiognomy and across time, medieval
bodies are a route into understanding a richly imaginative and
curious age ... is capacious and entertaining ... marvellously
detailed ... Medieval Bodies lets its readers see through medieval
eyes. Guided by Hartnell's expertise, we gaze upon a long-ago
world.
*Times Higher*
Medieval Bodies will make you smile and squirm in equal measure...
This is a book about the body, but in some ways it is an
exploration of the recesses of the medieval mind.
*TLS*
A thick, spicy plum pudding of a book
*London Review of Books*
A Sunday Times History Book of the Year 2018
*Sunday Times*
Elegantly combining strands from the histories of medicine, art,
and religion, this study explores how the medieval world understood
and treated the human body
*New Yorker*
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