Sensational Past DC The Princess and the Pea

The Princess and the Pea

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And will she be the key to their salvation or the architect of their downfall

During their investigations

Sensational Past DC The Princess and the PeaBlindfolding children from birth. Playing a piano made of live cats. Using tobacco to cure drowning. Wearing "flea" coloured clothes. These actions seem odd to us but in the eighteenth century they made sense. As Carolyn Purnell persuasively shows, while our bodies may not change dramatically, the way we think about the senses and put them to use has been rather different over the ages. Journeying through the past three hundred years, Purnell explores