Disease, dragons and saints: the management of epidemics in the Dark Ages
Peregrine Horden
Dragons exist. Let us begin with the effort of imagination necessary to make that assertion plausible. entertain idea never having seen a dragon may reflect only narrowness experience. Others have, if not encountered beast, at least come close doing so. Here is opening paper by anthropologist Dan Sperber, appropriately entitled ‘Apparently Irrational Beliefs’. It takes form quotation from his field diary:
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