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"Stimulating and fun to read." The Historian
"This is a serious book which makes the body in early modern Europe at the same time more comprehensible and still more strange." Social History of Medicine
"Piero Camporesi confronts us here with a baroque panorama of jarring variations, lurid juxtapositions, and vertiginous shifts in setting and scale ... Camporesi insists on being the dramaturge and devil′s advocate of an alternative history." Speculum
"In Camporesi′s breathtaking vision, covering several centuries of early modern peasant society, and focusing chiefly but not exclusively on Italy, real social history and l′histoire des mentalites fuse." Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
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Book Description 1989. Polity Press. Hardback. Book - VG. DJ - VG. Seller Inventory # 42662