Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World

Perspectives from across the Mediterranean and Beyond
Herausgeber: Jones, Lori; Varl¿k, Nükhet

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection highlights and nuances some of the recent critical advances in scholarship on death and disease, from different religious traditions.

Produktdetails

• Health and Healing in the Middle Ages
• Verlag: York Medieval Press
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1058g
• ISBN-13: 9781914049095
• ISBN-10: 1914049098
• Artikelnr.: 63978571

Autorenporträt

Edited by Lori Jones and Nükhet Varlik

Inhaltsangabe

Intersections: Disease and Death, Medicine and Religion, Medieval and Early
Modern LORI JONES, NÜKHET VARLIK AND WINSTON BLACK PART I: DIAGNOSING,
EXPLAINING AND RECORDING 1 Knowing the Signs of Disease: Plague in the
Arabic Medical Commentaries between the First and Second Pandemics NAHYAN
FANCY 2 The Legal Foundations of Post-Mortem Diagnosis in Later Medieval
Milan ANN G. CARMICHAEL 3 Epidemic Illness in the Last Book of Giovanni
Villani's New Chronicle, 1345-1348: Warfare, Sin and the Heavens NICOLE
ARCHAMBEAU 4 Colours of Disease and Death in the Early Modern Ottoman
Cultural Imagination NÜKHET VARLIK 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 ELAINE STRATTON HILD 6 Medical and
Spiritual Healing of Death and Disease in Medieval Miracle Stories JENNIFER
C. EDWARDS 7 Infirmity and Death-Wishes in Medieval French and Italian
Canonisation Processes JENNI KUULIALA 8 Bubo Men? Repurposing Medieval
Anatomic Illustrations for Plague Therapy in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth
Centuries LORI JONES 9 Psalm 38 as Plague Diagnostic and Prophylactic in
Abraham Yagel's Moshi'ah ¿osim (1587) ANDREW BERNS 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
NICHOLA E. HARRIS PART III: STUDYING, ANALYSING AND INTERPRETING 11 Leprosy
in Medieval Europe: An Immunological and Syndemic Approach FABIAN CRESPO 12
Past Plagues: On the Synergies of Genetic and Historical Interpretations of
Infectious Disease HENDRIK POINAR SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX