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Taylor McCall is the managing editor of Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies.
McCall offers an exciting new overview of the deep connections between visual and medical culture during the European Middle Ages. An important revision to the outdated caricature of medieval anatomy as intellectually and artistically backwards, this book tours the rich and varied personalities--monks, university anatomists, physicians, artists, and artist-anatomists--who generated both detailed knowledge and eloquent visualizations of the bodily interior. What results is a powerful argument: that medieval people had a close interest anatomical form, striving to innovate how the body was understood and how it was pictured. --Jack Hartnell, author of 'Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages' McCall's The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe is rich and scholarly, full of images both gorgeous and grisly and giving much needed attention to medieval anatomical art. --Mary Wellesley, author of 'Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers'
