Piero Camporesi, The incorruptible flesh: bodily mutation and mortification in religion and folklore, trans. Tania Croft-Murray and Helen Elsom, Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture, Cambridge University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. ix, 286, £25.00/$44.50.

Patrizia Guarnieri

doi:10.1017/S0025727300049371

Piero Camporesi, The incorruptible flesh: bodily mutation and mortification in religion and folklore, trans. Tania Croft-Murray and Helen Elsom, Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture, Cambridge University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. ix, 286, £25.00/$44.50.

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Patrizia Guarnieri

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Stanford University in Italy, Florence

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Information: Medical History , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , April 1989 , pp. 263 - 264

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Piero Camporesi, The incorruptible flesh: bodily mutation and mortification in religion and folklore, trans. Tania Croft-Murray and Helen Elsom, Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture, Cambridge University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. ix, 286, £25.00/$44.50.

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