From Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages, by Jack Hartnell
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"These modern hoaxes are useful, not because they reveal some sort of scientific truth that we can impose onto the past, but because they remind us that although observant medieval people attached great importance to bleeding things, they did not necessarily accept such happenings without skepticism."
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Friday, March 6, 2020
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