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Meg Leja: Embodying The Soul [2022] hardback ZAHIS A delight from beginning toEmbodying the Soul explores the possibilities and limitations of human intervention in the body's health across the ninth century Carolingian Empire. Early medieval medicine has long been cast as a superstitious, degraded remnant of a vigorous, rational Greco Roman tradition. Against such assumptions, Meg Leja argues that Carolingian scholars engaged in an active debate regarding the value of Hippocratic knowledge, a debate framed by the efforts to
