Imagine living in a world where your body is as fragile as a pane of glass, where every handshake and every step carries the risk of shattering into a thousand pieces. This isn’t the plot of a fantasy novel but the reality for those afflicted with the glass delusion, a psychiatric condition that transformed people, particularly the nobility of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period, into living, breathing sculptures of fear and fragility. — Read the rest
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