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Explores the life of stone, following its matter-energy as it confounds the boundary between organic and inorganic, art and nature, human and mineral.
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The outcropping of the bedrock along the Hudson Bay containing some of the oldest rocks yet discovered (Greenfieldboyce, 2008).
The hypothesis of Geoffrey Wainwright (see Cohen, forthcoming).
I take my examples from Marbode of Rennes (ca 1035–1123), De lapidus, the most influential source of rock knowledge in the Middle Ages; and the Livre de Sydrac (Holler, 1979), a popular later text derived in part from Marbode.
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Cohen, J. Stories of stone. Postmedieval 1, 56–63 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1057/pmed.2009.1
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