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Valentin Groebner
(b.1962), Prof. Dr. phil, is professor of general and Swiss history of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, University of Luzern. His publications include Ungestalten. Die visuelle Kultur der Gewalt im Mittelalter (2003), and Der Schein der Person. Steckbrief, Ausweis und Kontrolle im Mittelalter (2004).
Eurozine Articles
Bodies on the market
Mercenaries, organ trading, and a history of body history
An examination of the commodification of the body in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, including slave trading and the use of mercenaries, provides a framework for a history of the body in the contemporary context of private military enterprise and organ trading. [more]
27.03.2006