Jones / Varlik Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World

Perspectives from across the Mediterranean and Beyond
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-80010-786-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 4, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm

Reihe: Health and Healing in the Middle Ages

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jones, Lori

Varlik, Nükhet

Weitere Mitwirkende

Jones, Lori

Varlik, Nükhet

Black, Winston

Fancy, Nahyan

Carmichael, Ann G.

Archambeau, Nicole

Stratton Hild, Elaine

Edwards, Jennifer

Kuuliala, Jenni

Berns, Andrew

Harris, Nichola

Crespo, Fabian

Poinar, Hendrik

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Revolutionen
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Hosim (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

Über Autor(innen)

Jones Lori:
Lori Jones is a medical historian at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her research focuses primarily on plague texts and images.Varlik Nükhet:
Nükhet Varlik is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University-Newark. Her research focuses on disease, death, medicine and public health in the Ottoman Empire.Jones Lori:
Lori Jones is a medical historian at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her research focuses primarily on plague texts and images.Varlik Nükhet:
Nükhet Varlik is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University-Newark. Her research focuses on disease, death, medicine and public health in the Ottoman Empire.