Title Death and disease in the Medieval and early modern world : perspectives from across the Mediterranean and beyond / Lori Jones, Nükhet Varlık

Published Suffolk, UK : Boydell & Brewer : York Medieval Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (320 pages) Series Health and healing in the Middle Ages Health and healing in the Middle Ages. Contents Intro -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Ann G. Carmichael: An Appreciation -- Contributors -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Intersections: Disease and Death, Medicine and Religion, Medieval and Early Modern -- PART I Diagnosing, Explaining and Recording -- 1 Knowing the Signs of Disease: Plague in the Arabic Medical Commentaries between the First and Second Pandemics -- 2 The Legal Foundations of Post-Mortem Diagnosis in Later Medieval Milan -- 3 Epidemic Illness in the Last Book of Giovanni Villani's New Chronicle, 1345-48: Warfare, Sin and the Heavens -- 4 Colours of Disease and Death in the Early Modern Ottoman Cultural Imagination -- 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 -- 6 Medical and Spiritual Healing of Death and Disease in Medieval Miracle Stories -- 7 Infirmity and Death Wishes in Medieval French and Italian Canonisation Processes -- 8 Bubo Men? Repurposing Medieval Anatomic Illustrations for Plague Therapy in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries -- 9 Psalm 38 as Plague Diagnostic and Prophylactic in Abraham Yagel's Moshi'ah Ḥosim (1587) -- 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 -- PART III Studying, Analysing and Interpreting -- 11 Leprosy in Medieval Europe: An Immunological and Syndemic Approach -- 12 Past Plagues: On the Synergies of Genetic and Historical Interpretations of Infectious Disease Summary Juxtaposing and interlacing similarities and differences across and beyond the pre-modern Mediterranean world, Christian, Islamic and Jewish healing traditions, the collection highlights and nuances some of the recent critical advances in scholarship on death and disease Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed August 1, 2022) Subject Medicine, Medieval. Medicine, Medieval -- Mediterranean Region Medical literature -- History and criticism Death -- Early works to 1800 History, Medieval HISTORY / Medieval Death Medical literature Medicine, Medieval Mediterranean Region Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Early works Form Electronic book Author Varlik, Nükhet, author. ISBN 9781800107861 1800107862 9781800107878 1800107870

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