Art historian Hartnell’s entertaining, comprehensive debut contradicts the popular conception of the Middle Ages as a “backwards, muddy” time by surveying medieval attitudes toward the human body.

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In his wonderfully rich book Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages, Dr. Jack Hartnell shows that the era wasn't as ignorant or stagnant as we often assume but acknowledges that at ...

There is a long history of Europeans bringing buildings to California. A Christian mission has stood in some form or other at San Diego de Alcalá since 1769, testifying to the colonial expansion of ...

For medievalists, the bodily turn has had a profound impact not just on the histories of medicine and sexuality, as one would expect, but also on those of art, religion and ideas. Thirty-five years or ...

Sebastian Jäger, "Wound Man" (c. 1580), ink and paint on parchment, painted in Vienna, Austria, held in UCLA's Louise M. Darling Medical Library, MS Benjamin 8, fol. IVv (photo by Jack Hartnell) Even ...

Jack Hartnell Recent Articles The Medieval History Behind Our Halloween Fascination With Skeletons A fascination with our bodies’ bones goes back much further than modern Halloween merch—all the way ...

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