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Health and Society in Early Modern Sweden
Av Mari Eyice, Charlotta Forss
Inbunden, 2024
2190 kr
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This volume explores how health was understood and practiced in the early modern Nordic region, with a focus on Sweden, including Finland.
Health and Society in Early Modern Sweden
Av Mari Eyice, Charlotta Forss
Häftad, 2025
725 kr
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The understanding of what health is and how it can be maintained has changed through history. Questions like who can perform healing? and what sort of bodies are considered healthy? have elicited widely divergent responses in different societies. This volume explores how health was understood and …
Disabled Clerics in the Late Middle Ages
Un/suitable for Divine Service?
Häftad, 2023
704 kr
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The petitions received and the letters sent by the Papal Chancery during the Late Middle Ages attest to the recognition of disability at the highest levels of the medieval Church. These documents acknowledge the existence of physical and/or mental impairments, with the papacy issuing dispensations …
Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550
Av Sara Ritchey, Sharon Strocchia
Häftad, 2025
725 kr
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This path-breaking collection offers an integrative model for understanding health and healing in Europe and the Mediterranean from 1250 to 1550. By foregrounding gender as an organizing principle of healthcare, the contributors challenge traditional binaries that ahistorically separate care from …
Hospitals in Communities of the Late Medieval Rhineland
Häftad, 2025
725 kr
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From the mid-twelfth century onwards, the development of European hospitals was shaped by their claim to the legal status of religious institutions, with its attendant privileges and responsibilities. The questions of whom hospitals should serve and why they should do so have recurred — and been …
Medical Case Studies (Consilia medica) of the Early Modern Period
Great Pox Documented
Häftad, 2025
725 kr
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Consilia played an important role in not only medieval but also early modern professional health literature. A literary ‘consilium’ consisted of a written statement of one particular case, including the patient's condition and disease as well as advice concerning medical treatment. In the sixteenth …
Medieval Communities and the Mad
Narratives of Crime and Mental Illness in Late Medieval France
Häftad, 2025
725 kr
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The concept of madness as a challenge to communities lies at the core of legal sources. Medieval Communities and the Mad: Narratives of Crime and Mental Illness in Late Medieval France considers how communal networks, ranging from the locale to the realm, responded to people who were considered …
Monstrosity, Bodies, and Knowledge in Early Modern England
Curiosity to See and Behold
Häftad, 2025
725 kr
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In 1680, the poor cottager Mary Herring gave birth to conjoined twins. At two weeks of age, they were kidnapped to be shown for money, and their deaths shortly thereafter gave rise to a four-year legal battle over ownership and income. The Herring twins’ microhistory weaves throughout this book, as …
Saint Anthony's Fire from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century
Häftad, 2025
725 kr
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After the discovery of the ergotism epidemics (poisoning caused by ingesting the fungal toxin of rye) and its etiology, eighteenth-century physicians interpreted medieval chronicles in their medical texts in order to recognize the occurrences of ergotic diseases through retrospective diagnosis. …
Saints, Infirmity, and Community in the Late Middle Ages
Häftad, 2025
704 kr
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Bodily suffering and patient, Christlike attitudes towards that suffering were among the key characteristics of sainthood throughout the medieval period. Saints, Infirmity, and Community in the Late Middle Ages analyses the meanings given to putative saints' bodily infirmities in late medieval …
Viewing Disability in Medieval Spanish Texts
Disgraced or Graced
Häftad, 2025
809 kr
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This book is one of the first to examine medieval Spanish canonical works for their portrayals of disability in relationship to theological teachings, legal precepts, and medical knowledge. Connie L. Scarborough shows that physical impairments were seen differently through each lens. Theology at …
Women, Food, and Diet in the Middle Ages
Balancing the Humours
Häftad, 2025
725 kr
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What can anthropological and folkloristic approaches to food, gender, and medicine tell us about these topics in the Middle Ages beyond the textual evidence itself? Women, Food, and Diet in the Middle Ages: Balancing the Humours uses these approaches to look at the textual traditions of dietary …
Cultural Perceptions of Health, Illness and the Body in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Inbunden, 2026
2504 kr
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Cultural Perceptions of Health, Illness and Medicine in Medieval and Early Modern Europe explores the rich cultural history of bodily experience through diverse case studies spanning from Italy to Sweden and from England to the Levant.How did medieval and early modern Europeans experience and …
Viewing Disability in Medieval Spanish Texts
Disgraced or Graced
Inbunden, 2018
2504 kr
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This book is one of the first to examine medieval Spanish canonical works for their portrayals of disability in relationship to theological teachings, legal precepts, and medical knowledge.
Saint Anthony's Fire from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century
Inbunden, 2019
2190 kr
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After the discovery of the ergotism epidemics (poisoning caused by ingesting the fungal toxin of rye) and its etiology, eighteenth-century physicians interpreted medieval chronicles in their medical texts in order to recognize the occurrences of ergotic diseases through retrospective diagnosis. …
Medieval Communities and the Mad
Narratives of Crime and Mental Illness in Late Medieval France
Inbunden, 2020
2190 kr
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The concept of madness as a challenge to communities lies at the core of legal sources. Medieval Communities and the Mad: Narratives of Crime and Mental Illness in Late Medieval France considers how communal networks, ranging from the locale to the realm, responded to people who were considered mad.
Saints, Infirmity, and Community in the Late Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2020
2126 kr
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This study depicts holy infirmity as an aspect of sanctity that is largely defined within the community, in continual dialogue with devotees, people suffering from doubt, the holy person, and the cultural patterns ascribed to saintly life.
Monstrosity, Bodies, and Knowledge in Early Modern England
Curiosity to See and Behold
Inbunden, 2024
2190 kr
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This book ties together social and medical history, Disability Studies, and Monster Studies to argue that people discussed unusual bodies in early modern England because they provided newsworthy entertainment, revealed the will of God, and demonstrated the internal workings of Nature.
Women, Food, and Diet in the Middle Ages
Balancing the Humours
Inbunden, 2020
2190 kr
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This work illuminates what we can know about women, food, medicine, and diet in the Middle Ages, and examines how the written medical tradition interacts with folk medicine and other cultural factors in both understanding women's bodies and their roles as healers and food providers.
Hospitals in Communities of the Late Medieval Rhineland
Inbunden, 2023
2190 kr
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From the mid-twelfth century onwards, the development of European hospitals was shaped by their claim to the legal status of religious institutions, with its attendant privileges and responsibilities. The questions of whom hospitals should serve and why they should do so have recurred — and been …
Disabled Clerics in the Late Middle Ages
Un/suitable for Divine Service?
Inbunden, 2023
2126 kr
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Based on rich documentation this work proposes an history of disabled people experiences, theorized as lived disability that allows us to rethink the place of the (disabled) body in the Christian thoughts. It also offers a sensitive history of the clerics' bodies.
Medical Case Studies (Consilia medica) of the Early Modern Period
Great Pox Documented
Inbunden, 2022
2190 kr
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This is an analysis of 7000 consilia from twenty-two different collections and anthologies by fifteen selected authors, who represent university professors, personal physicians, and urban physicians from early modern Italy, France, and German-speaking Central Europe.
Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550
Av Sara Ritchey, Sharon Strocchia
Inbunden, 2020
2190 kr
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This path-breaking collection offers an integrative model for understanding health and healing in Europe and the Mediterranean from 1250 to 1550.
