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A Grammar of the Corpse: Necroepistemology in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Posted By: arundhati
Date: 12 Jul 2023 00:38:15
A Grammar of the Corpse: Necroepistemology in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Elizabeth Spragins, "A Grammar of the Corpse: Necroepistemology in the Early Modern Mediterranean"
English | ISBN: 1531501567 | 2023 | 224 pages | PDF | 6 MB

No matter when or where one starts telling the story of the battle of al-Qasr al-Kabir (August 4, 1578), the precipitating event for the formation of the Iberian Union, one always stumbles across dead bodies―rotting in the sun on abandoned battlefields, publicly displayed in marketplaces, exhumed and transported for political uses. A Grammar of the Corpse: Necroepistemology in the Early Modern Mediterranean proposes an approach to understanding how dead bodies anchored the construction of knowledge within early modern Mediterranean historiography.



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