| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 253 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Part I. Study -- 1. Health and changelings -- 2. Care of changelings -- 3. Neglecting the baby -- Conclusion -- Part II. Manuscript and visual sources -- Corpus of non-hagiographic changeling sources -- Corpus of hagiographic changeling sources -- Notes to the corpus of hagiographic changeling sources -- Part III. Edited texts and translations -- Notker's commentary on Psalm 17, verse 46 -- St Stephen -- St Bartholowmew -- St Lawrence -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Life of Saint Stephen from Monte Cassino, Abbazia di Montecassino, Codex CXVII -- Life of Saint Stephen from Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, MS Lat Z 158 -- Life of Saint Stephen from Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, MS Lat IX 16 -- Life of Saint Stephen from Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, H 82 suss -- Saint Bartholomew -- Life of Saint Bartholomew from Brussels, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, MS 1116 -- Saint Lawrence -- Life of Saint Lawrence from Hermann Oesterley's edition of the Gesta Romanorum -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
The first comprehensive study of medieval changelings and associated attitudes to the health and care of children in the period |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Changelings.
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Medicine, Medieval.
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Child health services -- History -- To 1500
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Children -- Health and hygiene -- History -- To 1500
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History, Medieval
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Parent and child in literature
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Changelings
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Child health services
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Children -- Health and hygiene
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Medicine, Medieval
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781800109285 |
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1800109288 |
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