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'She is De Quincey's heir and Kafka's sister' Brian Aldiss

handsome and daring

A delight from beginning to end

In this landmark edition

Meg Leja: Embodying The Soul [2022] hardback ZAHIS Each plate is accompanied byEmbodying the Soul explores the possibilities and limitations of human intervention in the body's health across the ninth century Carolingian Empire. Early medieval medicine has long been cast as a superstitious, degraded remnant of a vigorous, rational Greco Roman tradition. Against such assumptions, Meg Leja argues that Carolingian scholars engaged in an active debate regarding the value of Hippocratic knowledge, a debate framed by the efforts to