Spread throughout the pages are beautiful full-color photographs and illustrations that help add more meaning to the specific examples being discussed.
IG: | Do not use my images without permission I really appreciated this well rounded view. At the same time though, he doesn’t shy away from pointing out the blatant racism, homophobia, and misogyny that people regularly experienced. Hartnell explains that in a lot of ways, the Middle Ages were more progressive than we give them credit for. For example, in the section on the heart we learn about how the heart was studied medically, but also about how the iconic heart shape “<3” was popularized. Also tied in are relevant points of context from the time. It was fascinating to learn about how Medieval people understood the different aspects and functions of the body. The writing is eloquent but not the point of becoming overly flowery or too dense to get through. The book is arranged in sections from head to toe, including everything in between. Hartnell treats us to a fascinating and surprisingly in-depth look at life in the Middle Ages from the perspective of the human body. Medieval Bodies is published in association with Wellcome Collection.Medieval Bodies: Life and De ath in the Middle Ages by Jack Hartnell Goodreads rating: 4.04 My rating: 4/5 Listen Free to Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages audiobook by Jack Hartnell with a 30 Day Free Trial Stream and download audiobooks to. 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.
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. In literature and politics, hearts and heads became powerful metaphors that shaped governance and society in ways that are still visible today. 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 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. Dripping with blood and gold, fetishised 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.
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