Caring for the Living Soul

Emotions, Medicine and Penance in the Late Medieval Mediterranean
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-34151-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 110, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: The Medieval Mediterranean

Caring for the Living Soul identifies the fundamental role emotions played in the development of learned medicine and in the formation of the social role of the "physicians of the body" in the western Mediterranean between 1200 and 1500. The book explores theoretical debates and practical advice concerning the treatment of the "accidentia anime" in diverse medical sources. Contextualizing this literature within the developments in natural philosophy and pastoral theology during the period, and alongside local and social contexts of medical practice, emotions are revealed to have been a malleable topic through which change and innovation in the field of medicine transpired. Bringing together a wide range of untapped sources and creating connections between emotions, religious authorities, and medical practitioners, this study sheds light on the centrality of the discourses of emotions to the formation of the social fabric.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cohen-Hanegbi, Naama

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction
1 Accidents, Passions, Habits, and Sins
2 Between and within Body and Soul
3 Treating Emotions
4 Passiones del Alma—Castile, c. 1380
5 Mourning and Melancholy and the Boundaries of Sorrow in 15th-Century Italy
Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Naama Cohen-Hanegbi, Ph.D. (2011), a lecturer in medieval history at Tel Aviv University, has published articles on emotions in medieval medicine and on Juan d'Aviñón's medical works. Together with Piroska Nagy she has edited The Medieval Book of Pleasure (Brepols, forthcoming).