Death and disease in the Medieval and early modern world : perspectives from across the Mediterranean and beyond /

Juxtaposing and interlacing similarities and differences across and beyond the pre-modern Mediterranean world, Christian, Islamic and Jewish healing traditions, the collection highlights and nuances some of the recent critical advances in scholarship on death and disease.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Jones, Lori (Medical historian) (Autor), Varlik, Nükhet (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Suffolk, UK : Boydell & Brewer : York Medieval Press, 2022.
Colección:Health and healing in the Middle Ages.
Temas:
Medicine, Medieval.
Medicine, Medieval > Mediterranean Region.
Medical literature > History and criticism.
Death > Early works to 1800.
History, Medieval
Médecine médiévale.
Médecine > Documentation > Histoire et critique.
HISTORY / Medieval
Death
Medical literature
Medicine, Medieval
Mediterranean Region
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Early works
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Half Title Page
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Ann G. Carmichael: An Appreciation
  • Contributors
  • Note on Translation and Transliteration
  • Intersections: Disease and Death, Medicine and Religion, Medieval and Early Modern
  • PART I Diagnosing, Explaining and Recording
  • 1 Knowing the Signs of Disease: Plague in the Arabic Medical Commentaries between the First and Second Pandemics
  • 2 The Legal Foundations of Post-Mortem Diagnosis in Later Medieval Milan
  • 3 Epidemic Illness in the Last Book of Giovanni Villani's New Chronicle, 1345-48: Warfare, Sin and the Heavens
  • 4 Colours of Disease and Death in the Early Modern Ottoman Cultural Imagination
  • PART II Coping, Preventing and Healing
  • 5 The Role of Music in a Franciscan Liturgy for the End of Life, as Evidenced in Manuscript Newberry 24
  • 6 Medical and Spiritual Healing of Death and Disease in Medieval Miracle Stories
  • 7 Infirmity and Death Wishes in Medieval French and Italian Canonisation Processes
  • 8 Bubo Men? Repurposing Medieval Anatomic Illustrations for Plague Therapy in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
  • 9 Psalm 38 as Plague Diagnostic and Prophylactic in Abraham Yagel's Moshi'ah Ḥosim (1587)
  • 10 The Protection of Innocents: Red Coral as a Lapidary Cure for the 'Children's Disease' and Conditions Related to Childbirth in Medieval and Early Modern England
  • PART III Studying, Analysing and Interpreting
  • 11 Leprosy in Medieval Europe: An Immunological and Syndemic Approach
  • 12 Past Plagues: On the Synergies of Genetic and Historical Interpretations of Infectious Disease

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