Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Disease, Disability and Medicine in Medieval Europe Conference (8th), creator

Title New approaches to disease, disability and medicine in Medieval Europe / edited by Erin Connelly and Stefanie Künzel
Published Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2018

Copies

Description 1 online resource (ii, 152 pages) : illustrations (colour)
Contents Foreword -- Christina Lee; Introduction -- Erin Connelly and Stefanie Künzel; Chapter 1 -- Þu miht wiþ þam laþan ðe geond lond færð: Conceptualisations of Disease in Anglo-Saxon Charms -- Stefanie Künzel; Chapter 2 -- A Still Sound Mind: Personal Agency of Impaired People in Anglo-Saxon Care and Cure Narratives -- Marit Ronen; Chapter 3 -- Mobility Limitations and Assistive Aids in the Merovingian Burial Record -- Cathrin Hähn; Chapter 4 -- Tearing the Face in Grief and Rape: Cheek Rending in Medieval Iberia, c. 1000-1300 -- Rachel Welsh; Chapter 5 -- Clerical Leprosy and the Ecclesiastical Office: Dis/Ability and Canon Law -- Ninon Dubourg; Chapter 6 -- Inside the Leprosarium: Illness in the Daily Life of 14th Century Barcelona -- Clara Jáuregui; Chapter 7 -- Languages of Experience: Translating Medicine in MS Laud Misc 237 -- Lucy Barnhouse; Chapter 8 -- Heillög Bein, Brotin Bein: Manifestations of Disease in Medieval Iceland -- Cecilia Collins; Chapter 9 -- A Case Study of Plantago in the Treatment of Infected Wounds in the Middle English Translation of Bernard of Gordon's Lilium medicinae -- Erin Connelly; Chapter 10 -- Miserum spectaculum, horrendus fetor, aspectus horrendus: 'Syphilis' in Strasbourg at the Turn of the 16th Century -- Christoph Wieselhuber
Summary An interdisciplinary collection of papers focusing on infections, chronic illness, and the impact of infectious diseases on Medieval society, with contributions by academics from a variety of disciplines and a diverse range of international institutions
Notes Previously issued in print: 2018
Selected conference papers
Available through Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service
Audience Specialized
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 9, 2018)
Subject Communicable diseases -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses
Disabilities -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses
Medicine, Medieval -- Europe -- Congresses
Medicine, Medieval -- Social aspects -- Europe -- Congresses
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
Communicable diseases
Disabilities
Medicine, Medieval
Europe
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Connelly, Erin, editor
Künzel, Stefanie, editor
Archaeopress, publisher.
ISBN 1784918849
9781784918842