# Interview: Bodies in the Middle Ages — WHE Interview Discussion (2-2472)

**URL:** <https://community.worldhistory.org/t/interview-bodies-in-the-middle-ages-whe-interview-discussion-2-2472/17696>\
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**Created:** [May 29, 2024, 9:00am UTC](https://community.worldhistory.org/t/interview-bodies-in-the-middle-ages-whe-interview-discussion-2-2472/17696 "2024-05-29T09:00:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![jbw288](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/community.worldhistory.org/jbw288/32/295_2.png) [@jbw288](https://community.worldhistory.org/u/jbw288)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 9:00am UTC](https://community.worldhistory.org/t/interview-bodies-in-the-middle-ages-whe-interview-discussion-2-2472/17696/1 "2024-05-29T09:00:02Z")

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In the Middle Ages, attitudes to the human body were rife with contradictions: Glorified, oppressed, cared for, and chastised. A new temporary exhibition at the Swiss National Museum in Zürich – _coveted. cared for. martyred. Bodies in the Middle Ages_ – re-evaluates the ways in which medieval Europeans saw, conceived, and imagined the human body. In this interview, James Blake Wiener questions Curator Christine Keller about the exhibition's finer points.

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_This is a companion discussion topic for the original interview at [https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2472/interview-bodies-in-the-middle-ages/](https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2472/interview-bodies-in-the-middle-ages/)._

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**Author:** ![system](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/community.worldhistory.org/system/32/30_2.png) [@system](https://community.worldhistory.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2026, 10:51pm UTC](https://community.worldhistory.org/t/interview-bodies-in-the-middle-ages-whe-interview-discussion-2-2472/17696/2 "2026-07-31T22:51:42Z")

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