Embodying the soul : medicine and religion in Carolingian Europe

Embodying the Soul argues that classical medicine was reconfigured as a sacred Christian art across the Carolingian Empire in the ninth century, becoming not simply a method of physical rehabilitation but also a tool of spiritual transformation.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Leja, Meg
Other Authors: Karras, Ruth Mazo
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.
Series:Middle Ages series.
Subjects:
To 1500
Medicine, Medieval > Europe, Western.
Medicine, Medieval > Europe, Western > Sources.
Carolingians > Health and hygiene.
Carolingians > Religion.
Medicine > Religious aspects > Christianity > History > To 1500.
Human body > Religious aspects > Christianity > History > To 1500.
Mind and body > Religious aspects > Christianity > History > To 1500.
Médecine médiévale > Europe de l'Ouest.
Médecine médiévale > Europe de l'Ouest > Sources.
Carolingiens > Santé et hygiène.
Carolingiens > Religion.
HISTORY / Medieval
Human body > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Medicine, Medieval.
Medicine > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Mind and body > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Western Europe.
Sources.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. An ever closer union. The soul : "I take you, body, to be my lawful partner"
  • The self : "to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse"
  • The body : "in sickness and in health, until death do us part"
  • Part II. Medicine for the body and soul. Christianizing bodily cures
  • A ministry for the medicus
  • Part III. Medical order and disorder for self and society. A necessary and timely intervention
  • Habits for health.

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