The Incorruptible Flesh: Bodily Mutation and Mortification in Religion and Folklore by Piero Camporesi
The Incorruptible Flesh: Bodily Mutation and Mortification in Religion and Folklore

Piero Camporesi

The Incorruptible Flesh: Bodily Mutation and Mortification in Religion and Folklore

Piero Camporesi with Tania C. Murray

296 pages hardcover 1983

3 editions

nonfiction history religion informative reflective medium-paced
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What significance did the body have for the obsessively religious, superstitious, yet materially bound minds of the pre-industrial age? The human body was a constant prey to disease, plague, unhealthy living conditions, the evil effects of drugger...

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