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Bodily and spiritual hygiene in medieval and early modern literature : explorations of textual presentations of filth and water /
"Modern myths about medieval and early modern hygiene and health continue to dominate our understanding of the pre-modern world. People in the past might have used different approaches to hygiene and pursued well-being perhaps differently than we do today, but they were neither dirty nor sickly...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
Walter de Gruyter GmbH,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ;
19. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Bathing, Health Care, Medicine, and Water in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age / Albrecht Classen
- Treating the Condition of "Evil" in the Anglo-Saxon Herbals / Warren Tormey
- Bald's Leechbook and the Construction of Male Health in Anglo-Saxon England / Daniel F. Pigg
- The Necessitas Naturae and Monastic Hygiene / Belle S. Tuten
- Caring for the Body and Soul with Water : Guerric of Igny's Fourth Sermon on the Epiphany, Godfrey of Saint-Victor's Fons Philosophiae, and Peter of Celle's Letters / James L. Smith
- Affected yet Untouched : Spatial Barriers and the Neurobehavioral Impact on Lepers Living with Limited Interpersonal Touch in the Middle Ages / Erin S. Lynch
- Elemental Well-Being : Water and Its Attributes in Selected Writings of Hildegard of Bingen and Georgius Agricola / Debra L. Stoudt
- Potiones ad sanandum : Text as Remedy in a Medieval Latin Bestiary / Cynthia White
- Troubled Waters : Bathing and Illicit Relations in Marie de France's "Equitan" and in Flamenca / Rosa A. Perez
- The Liquids in Gottfried's Tristan und Isolde : Focus of Nature and Locus of Illness and Healing / Christopher R. Clason
- The Ambiguous Effects of Water and Oil in Middle English Romance : Acknowledged and Ignored / Jean E. Jost
- Lodestone and Litmus Test : Aqueous Presentations of Emotional Experience in Medieval and Renaissance Literature / Anne Scott
- The Sonnet about Women who Marry in Old Age : Filth, Misogyny, and Depravity / Fabian Alfie
- Si Odore Solo Locus Pestilentiosus Fiat : Private Property, Public Health and Environmental Hygiene : Advantages of the English Common Law of Nuisance over the Corpus Juris Civilis / Scott L. Taylor
- Mens Sana in Corpore Sanus : Water, Wellness, and Cleanliness in Five Fifteenth-Century Medical Manuals / Sarah Gordon
- Water, Environment, and Dietetic Rules in Bohemian Sources of the Early Modern Times / David Tomícek:-- The "Dirty Middle Ages" : Bathing and Cleanliness in the Middle Ages, with an Emphasis on Medieval German Courtly Romances, Early Modern Novels, and Art History : Another Myth-Buster / Albrecht Classen
- The Field Surgery Manual Which Became a Medical Commonplace Book : Hans von Gersdorff's Feldtbuch der Wundarzney (1517), translated into Low German / Chiara Benat
- The Role of Therapeutic Bathing in the Sixteenth Century and Its Contemporary Scientific Explanations / Thomas G. Benedek
- Testing the Waters : Early Modern Studies / Thomas Willard.