Lauren O’Hagan

Nov 3, 2023 | daily.jstor.org | Ashawnta Jackson |Lauren O’Hagan |Megan Cottrell |John Hamilton

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. A twelfth-century Bible came with a warning. “If anyone take away this book,” it began, “let him die the death; let him be fried in a pan; let the falling sickness and fever seize him; let him be broken on the wheel, and hanged. Amen.”That’s a pretty serious warning.