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Explore the intertwining narratives of sacred and profane bodies in European history, from the grandiose reign of Louis XIV of France to the controversial figures like Mussolini and Lenin. This journey delves into the detaching bodies during the guillotine era, the romantic bodies of poets like Henrik Wergeland, and touring bodies of Jeremy Bentham. Witness the surviving and absent bodies that shape our understanding of the past, including Hitler's Bunker and the New Jewish Cemetery in Prague.
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Detaching Bodies The Guillotine
Henrik Wergeland (Norway) Elias Lonnroth (Finland) France Preseren (Slovenia) Jonas Hallgrimsson (Iceland) Karel Macha (Bohemia) Sandor Petofi (Hungary) in Buffalo Taras Shevchenko (Ukraine) In Cleveland
Absent Bodies New Jewish Cemetery (Prague)
Sacred and Profane Bodies Vladimir Lenin