Yep- the handshake alone nearly decimated Europe in the Middle Ages. Terrible, terrible tragic form of greeting.
Yep- the handshake alone nearly decimated Europe in the Middle Ages. Terrible, terrible tragic form of greeting.
“An agreement can be expressed quickly and clearly in words,” the historian Walter Burkert once explained, “but is only made effective by a ritual gesture: open, weaponless hands stretched out toward one another, grasping each other in a mutual handshake".
When they clasped hands, people showed that their word was a sacred.
“An agreement can be expressed quickly and clearly in words,” the historian Walter Burkert once explained, “but is only made effective by a ritual gesture: open, weaponless hands stretched out toward one another, grasping each other in a mutual handshake".
**When they clasped hands, people showed that their word was a sacred.**
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