Why All the Fuss about the Body? A Medievalist's Perspective

Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 241-280

  Bynum, Caroline ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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