Health and Healing in the Middle Ages – serie
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Saints, Cure-Seekers and Miraculous Healing in Twelfth-Century England
Inbunden, 2021
1333 kr
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Traces the journey from ill health to miraculous cure through the lens of hagiographical texts from twelfth-century England.The cults of the saints were central to the medieval Church. These holy men and women acted as patrons and protectors to the religious communities who housed their relics and …
Ethnicity in Medieval Europe, 950-1250
Medicine, Power and Religion
Av Claire Weeda
Inbunden, 2021
1731 kr
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An investigation into how racial stereotypes were created and used in the European Middle Ages.Students in twelfth-century Paris held slanging matches, branding the English drunkards, the Germans madmen and the French as arrogant. On crusade, army recruits from different ethnic backgrounds taunted …
Guild Book of the Barbers and Surgeons of York (British Library, Egerton MS 2572)
Study and Edition
Inbunden, 2021
1731 kr
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A new exploration of the secular manuscripts and medieval medical texts associated with the York Guild and its members.Produced in 1486 and subsequently augmented, the Guild Book of the Barbers and Surgeons of York (British Library Egerton MS 2572) is a unique record of the knowledge, ambitions, …
Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World
Perspectives from across the Mediterranean and Beyond
Inbunden, 2022
1748 kr
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This collection highlights and nuances some of the recent critical advances in scholarship on death and disease, across and beyond the pre-modern Mediterranean world, Christian, Islamic and Jewish healing traditions.Across and beyond the pre-modern Mediterranean world, Christian, Islamic and Jewish …
Reception of Latin Medicine in Early Medieval England
The Evidence from Old English Texts
Inbunden, 2025
1489 kr
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Uses Old English medical texts - ranging from recipe collections and illustrated herbals to the therapeutics of ancient authorities - to reconstruct the diffusion and reception of Classical medical knowledge in early medieval England.Direct evidence for the earlier Latin sources and transmission of …
Ethnicity in Medieval Europe, 950-1250
Medicine, Power and Religion
Av Claire Weeda
Häftad, 2023
409 kr
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An investigation into how racial stereotypes were created and used in the European Middle Ages.Students in twelfth-century Paris held slanging matches, branding the English drunkards, the Germans madmen and the French as arrogant. On crusade, army recruits from different ethnic backgrounds taunted …
Saints, Cure-Seekers and Miraculous Healing in Twelfth-Century England
Häftad, 2024
365 kr
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Traces the journey from ill health to miraculous cure through the lens of hagiographical texts from twelfth-century England.The cults of the saints were central to the medieval Church. These holy men and women acted as patrons and protectors to the religious communities who housed their relics and …
Medicine of the Friars in Medieval England
Inbunden, 2024
780 kr
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Drawing upon a surprising wealth of evidence found in surviving manuscripts, this book restores friars to their rightful place in the history of English health care.Friars are often overlooked in the picture of health care in late medieval England. Physicians, surgeons, apothecaries, barbers, …
Onomantic Divination in Late Medieval Britain
Questioning Life, Predicting Death
Av Joanne Edge
Inbunden, 2024
1489 kr
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Demonstrates the wide prevalence of supposedly impermissible divination techniques found in a wide range of manuscripts from medieval Britain. When will I die? What is the sex of my unborn child? Which of two rivals will win a duel?As today, people in the later Middle Ages approached their …
Christ the Physician in Late-Medieval Religious Controversy
England and Central Europe, 1350-1434
Inbunden, 2024
1295 kr
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A consideration of the allegory of Christ the Divine Physician in medical and religious writings. Discourses of physical and spiritual health were intricately entwined in the Middle Ages, shaping intellectual concepts as well as actual treatment. The allegory of Christ as Divine Physician is an …
Early Medieval Medicine in Context
Transmission, Translation and Transformation
Av Debby Banham, Claire Burridge m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1333 kr
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Fresh perspectives on how medical texts, broadly construed, were recorded, perceived and utilised.The past few decades have witnessed significant shifts in the scholarly investigation of early medieval medicine and its texts, moving far beyond outdated stereotypes of stagnation and superstition, …
Christ the Physician in Late-Medieval Religious Controversy
England and Central Europe, 1350-1434
Häftad, 2026
378 kr
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A consideration of the allegory of Christ the Divine Physician in medical and religious writings. Discourses of physical and spiritual health were intricately entwined in the Middle Ages, shaping intellectual concepts as well as actual treatment. The allegory of Christ as Divine Physician is an …
Medicine of the Friars in Medieval England
Häftad, 2026
355 kr
Kommande
Drawing upon a surprising wealth of evidence found in surviving manuscripts, this book restores friars to their rightful place in the history of English health care.Friars are often overlooked in the picture of health care in late medieval England. Physicians, surgeons, apothecaries, barbers, …
Onomantic Divination in Late Medieval Britain
Questioning Life, Predicting Death
Av Joanne Edge
Häftad, 2027
408 kr
Kommande
Demonstrates the wide prevalence of supposedly impermissible divination techniques found in a wide range of manuscripts from medieval Britain. When will I die? What is the sex of my unborn child? Which of two rivals will win a duel?As today, people in the later Middle Ages approached their …
