Middle Ages 11: The Pulsating Body -- The Medieval World View
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
The Cosmic Body
Everything, almost any phenomenon you point to can somehow be accounted for by how a given substance or object fits into its proper place in this great chain. That's why birds fly, but mice do not. They were geocentric so they believed that the earth was at the centre of the universe. And people themselves also fit into a special sort of organism within the great chain of being. People saw themselves asi before as belonging to a kind of larger body with circulating blood and humors and and limbs. It's reminiscent of the ancient hindo myth that you see in the vedas,. which says that a society is divided into four vernasr orders of society - brahm
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