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A review by mlautchi
Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages by Jack Hartnell
read pages 1-8 for a uni reading Feb 2022
"A moment so glittering and diverse understandably comes with blurred beginnings and contested endings." (5)
"Historical change is, after all, a human thing. It does not sweep uniformly across regions in an instant." (6)
"Whenever we might think the Middle ages began or ended, it is the positive interaction between the political spheres of Byzantium, Europe and Islam, not only their opposition, that provides the key to understanding the era as a coherent moment, multiple complex cultures indelibly bound together through a shared Mediterraenean past." (8)
"A moment so glittering and diverse understandably comes with blurred beginnings and contested endings." (5)
"Historical change is, after all, a human thing. It does not sweep uniformly across regions in an instant." (6)
"Whenever we might think the Middle ages began or ended, it is the positive interaction between the political spheres of Byzantium, Europe and Islam, not only their opposition, that provides the key to understanding the era as a coherent moment, multiple complex cultures indelibly bound together through a shared Mediterraenean past." (8)