As different in approach and range as they undoubtedly are, these four books all share an interest in medieval representational practices out of which complex ideas and theories concerning bodies — indeed, out of which different bodies — emerge. Katharine Park’s Secrets of Women is a wonderfully rich study of anatomy and dissection in northern Italy as it developed from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century; Carole Rawcliffe’s Leprosy in Medieval England offers a dense and detailed examination of the treatment and theories surrounding leprosy in late medieval England; Nicola McDonald’s wide-ranging collection of essays explores a plethora of medieval obscenities ad related issues; and Patrizia Bettella’s The Ugly Woman examines the role of this reviled figure in Italian poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque.