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Author Bourbou, Chryssi.

Title Health and disease in Byzantine Crete (7th-12th centuries AD) / Chryssi Bourbou
Published Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 242 pages) : illustrations
Series Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean
Medicine in the medieval Mediterranean
Contents Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Jigsaw Puzzle of Health in Context; 2 In Search of Homo Byzantinus; 3 Tiny Occupants in Shallow Graves: The Bioarchaeology of Non-Adult Individuals; 4 The Byzantine World on a Plate; Conclusions: Reconstructing Health and Disease Patterns in Byzantine Crete: Results and Perspectives; Glossary; References Cited; Index
Summary Daily life and living conditions in the Byzantine world are relatively underexplored subjects, often neglected in comparison with more visible aspects of Byzantine culture, such as works of art. The book is among the few publications on Greek Byzantine populations and helps pioneer a new approach to the subject, opening a window on health status and dietary patterns through the lens of bioarchaeological research. Drawing on a diversity of disciplines (biology, chemistry, archaeology and history), the author focuses on the complex interaction between physiology, culture and the environment in B
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Human remains (Archaeology) -- Greece -- Crete
Paleopathology -- Greece -- Crete
Nutrition -- Greece -- Crete -- History
Diseases -- Greece -- Crete -- History
Cretans -- Health and hygiene -- History
Human ecology -- Greece -- Crete
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Greece -- Crete
MEDICAL -- History.
Antiquities
Diseases
Excavations (Archaeology)
Human ecology
Human remains (Archaeology)
Nutrition
Paleopathology
SUBJECT Crete (Greece) -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85033942
Subject Greece -- Crete
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781409417569
1409417565