A Cultural History of Medicine in the Middle Ages
A Cultural History of Medicine in the Middle Ages
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- Herausgeber: Iona McCleery
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 09/2024
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781350451490
- Bestellnummer: 11623203
- Umfang: 272 Seiten
- Gewicht: 454 g
- Maße: 244 x 169 mm
- Stärke: 25 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 19.9.2024
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
The Middle Ages (c. 500-c. 1500) are wellknown for the growth of universities and urban regulations, plague pandemics, increasingly sophisticated ways of causing injury in warfare, and abiding frameworks for health and illness provided by religion. Increasingly, however, archaeologists, historians and literary specialists have come together to flesh out the daily lives of medieval people at all levels of society, both in Christian Europe and the Islamic Mediterranean. A Cultural History of Medicine in the Middle Ages follows suit, but also brings new approaches and comparisons into the conversation.Through the investigation of poems, pottery, personal letters, recipes and petitions, and through a breadth of topics running from street-cleaning, cooking and amulets to religious treatises and death rituals, this volume accords new meaning and value to the period and those who lived it. Its chapters confirm that the study of latrines, patterns of manuscript circulation, miracle narratives, sermons, skeletons, metaphors and so on, have as much to tell us about attitudes towards health and illness as do medical texts. Delving within and beyond texts, and focusing on the sensory, the experiential, the personal, the body and the spirit, this volume celebrates and critiques the diverse and complex cultural history of medieval health and medicine.