Saints, infirmity, and community in the late Middle Ages /

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Bodily suffering and patient, Christlike attitudes towards that suffering were among the key characteristics of sainthood throughout the medieval period. Drawing on new work in medieval dis/ability studies, this book analyses the meanings given to putative saints' bodily infirmities in late med...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kuuliala, Jenni (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2020]
Series:Premodern health, disease and disability ; 4.
Subjects:
To 1500
Human body > Religious aspects.
Disability studies > Religious aspects.
Medicine > Religious aspects.
Christian saints > Diseases.
Suffering > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Medicine, Medieval.
Canonization > History > To 1500.
Christian saints > Cult.
Religion and Medicine
History, Medieval
Corps humain > Aspect religieux.
Études sur le handicap > Aspect religieux.
Médecine > Aspect religieux.
Saints chrétiens > Maladies.
Médecine médiévale.
Saints chrétiens > Culte.
Medieval history.
Social and cultural history.
History of religion.
Disability: social aspects.
History of medicine.
RELIGION > Christianity > Saints & Sainthood.
Canonization
Christian saints > Cult
Human body > Religious aspects
Medicine, Medieval
Medicine > Religious aspects
Suffering > Religious aspects > Christianity
Hagiography, canonization, sainthood, dis/ability.
History
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