On Parchment Violence in society showing that remembering war was

showing that remembering war was significant and meaningful centuries before the advent of the nation-state

’ Alex T Smith

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This stunning nonfiction storybook is expertly researched and gorgeously illustrated

and his rise to international acclaim during the 1980s and beyond

On Parchment Violence in society showing that remembering war wasA 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