

Medieval Bodies
Life and Death in the Middle Ages
Author: Jack Hartnell
Narrator: Michael Page
Unabridged: 8 hr 26 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 11/12/2019
Categories: Nonfiction, History, European History, Medical, Medical History
Synopsis
In this witty and unusual history, Jack Hartnell uncovers the fascinating ways in which people thought about, explored, and experienced their physical selves in the Middle Ages, from Constantinople to Cairo and Canterbury. Unfolding like a medieval pageant, and filled with saints, soldiers, caliphs, queens, monks and monstrous beasts, it throws light on the medieval body from head to toe—revealing the surprisingly sophisticated medical knowledge of the time.
Bringing together medicine, art, music, politics, philosophy, religion, and social history, there is no better guide to what life was really like for the men and women who lived and died in the Middle Ages. Perfumed and decorated with gold, fetishized or tortured, powerful even beyond death, these medieval bodies are not passive and buried away; they can still teach us what it means to be human.