A Grammar of the Corpse Fred Ascher There is greater material wealth

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A Grammar of the Corpse Fred Ascher There is greater material wealthNo matter when or where one starts telling the story of the battle of al Qasr al Kabir (August 4, 1578), the precipitating event for the formation of the Iberian Union, one always stumbles across dead bodies rotting in the sun on abandoned battlefields, publicly displayed in marketplaces, exhumed and transported for political uses. A Grammar of the Corpse: Necroepistemology in the Early Modern Mediterranean proposes an approach to understanding how