Owing to its relatedness to parchment as the primary writing matter of the Middle Ages, human skin was not only a topic to write about in medieval texts, it was also conceived of as an inscribable surface, both in the material and in the...

"Secrecy and Surveillance in Medieval and Early Modern England" von Nicole Nyffenegger untersucht die Themen Geheimhaltung und Überwachung in England während des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit. Das Buch ist Teil der Reihe "Swiss...