On Parchment Violence in society This stunning nonfiction storybook is

This stunning nonfiction storybook is expertly researched and gorgeously illustrated

’ Alex T Smith

At a dinner party in 1922

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On Parchment Violence in society This stunning nonfiction storybook isA sweeping exploration of the shaping role of animal skins in written culture and human imagination over three millennia For many centuries, the societies of the premodern world recorded and preserved a good part of their written cultures on parchment: the rendered skins of sheep, cows, goats, camels, deer, gazelles, and other creatures whose remains make up a significant portion of the eras surviving historical record. In a study spanning three