Telo ve stredověké kulture

Another of the works of the famous French medievalist is devoted to the attractive theme of the body and corporality in the history of medieval culture.
Gradually we get acquainted with the tension between the renunciation of fasting and the detachment of the carnival, with the value of childhood and old age in the eyes of medieval society, the methods of medieval medicine, we can look into the secrets of medieval cuisine.
Le Goff's attention will not escape the bizarre details, which complete the plastic image of the imagination of medieval man - the world of medieval monsters, or, conversely, the "sports" performances of medieval man.
The final part of the book introduces the function and meaning of the metaphor of the body in the thinking and social structure of the Middle Ages, an era in which the human body is an image of the world, a microcosm.

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