to depict instead a raw and visceral experience of life as it was felt
The Devil's Highway is a bold and intimate novel that spans centuries and challenges our dearest assumptions about what it means to be civilised
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original and utterly unforgettable
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Susan Broomhall: A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Late Medieval, Reformation, and Renaissance Age (The Cultural Histories Series) [2022] paperback Condition:New to depict instead a rawThe period 1300 1600 CE was one of intense and far reaching emotional realignments in European culture. New desires and developments in politics, religion, philosophy, the arts and literature fundamentally changed emotional attitudes to history, creating the sense of a rupture from the immediate past. In this volatile context, cultural products of all kinds offered competing objects of love, hate, hope and fear. Art, music, dance and song provided new