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This comprehensive study of rituals in early modern Europe draws on extensive historical research to argue that between about 1400 and 1700 a revolution in ritual theory took place that utterly transformed concepts about time, the body, and the presence of spiritual forces in the world. The... read more
First Sentence
In 1393 an ambitious, fledgling businessman, a twenty-two-year-old Florentine named Giovanni Morelli, began to write a "memory book," a combined family history and personal diary that he kept for most of the rest of his life.
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- Edward Muir (Author)
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