Strange Histories: The Trial of the Pig, the Walking Dead, and Other Matters of Fact from the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds
Explores how medieval and Renaissance Europeans understood strange events and unusual beliefs through historical records and cases.
About This Book
Strange Histories examines how people in medieval and Renaissance Europe made sense of unusual events and beliefs.
The book draws on historical records to show how ideas about reality and evidence differed from modern perspectives.
It highlights cases that challenged contemporary understanding of what was considered fact or possible.
Readers gain insight into the ways societies interpreted extraordinary occurrences and unusual phenomena.
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