Download or read book The Incorruptible Flesh written by Piero Camporesi and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1988-04-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Camporesi examines what significance the body had for the obsessively religious, superstitious, yet materially bound minds of the pre-industrial age? In this extraordinary and often astounding book, Professor Camporesi traces these ideas back to various documents across the centuries and explores the juxtaposition of medicine and sorcery, cookery and surgery, pharmacy and alchemy.