| Description |
1 online resource (375 p.) |
| Series |
Health and Healing in the Middle Ages Ser. ; v.4 |
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Health and Healing in the Middle Ages Ser
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Ann G. Carmichael: An Appreciation -- List of 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 -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Medicine, Medieval.
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Healing -- Religious aspects -- History
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Mortality and age
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History, Medieval
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HISTORY / Medieval.
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Healing -- Religious aspects
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Medicine, Medieval
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Varlık, Nükhet
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Black, Winston
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Fancy, Nahyan
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Carmichael, Ann G
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Archambeau, Nicole
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Stratton Hild, Elaine
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Edwards, Jennifer
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Kuuliala, Jenni
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Berns, Andrew
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| ISBN |
9781800107861 |
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1800107862 |
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