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1 online resource : illustrations |
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Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: infirmitas in antiquity and the middle ages / Christian Krötzl, Katariina Mustakallio and Jenni Kuuliala -- I defining infirmity and disability -- Age, agency and disability : suetonius and the emperors of the first century ce / Mary Harlow & Ray Laurence -- Infirmitas or not? : short-statured persons in ancient Greece / Véronique Dasen -- Performing dis/ability? : constructions of "infirmity" in late medieval and early modern life writing / Bianca Frohne -- Nobility, community and physical impairment in later medieval canonization processes / Jenni Kuuliala -- Towards a glossary of melancholy, depression and psychological distress in ancient Roman culture / Donatella Puliga -- Societal and cultural infirmitas -- The crusader's stigmata : true crusading and the wounds of Christ in the crusade ideology of the thirteenth century / Miikka Tamminen -- Illness, self-inflicted body pain and supernatural stigmata : three ways of identification with the suffering body of Christ / Gábor Klaniczay -- Imagery of disease, poison and healing in the late fourteenth-century polemics against Waldensian heresy / Reima Välimäki -- Infirmitas romana and its cure : Livy's history therapy in the ab urbe condita / Katariina Mustakallio & Elina Pyy -- Infirmity, healing and community -- From Mithridatium to potio sancti Pauli : the idea of a medicine from antiquity to the middle ages / Svetlana Hautala -- Alternative medicine in pre-Roman and Republican Italy : sacred springs, curative baths and "votive religion" / Alison Griffith -- Bathing the infirm: water basins in Roman iconography and household contexts / Ria Berg -- Sexual incapacity in medieval materia medica / Susanna Niiranen -- Miracles and the body social : infirmi in the middle Dutch miracle collection of Our Lady of Amersfoort / Jonas Van Mulder -- Saints, healing and communities in the later middle ages : on roles and perceptions / Christian Krötzl -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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People with disabilities -- History -- To 1500
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People with mental disabilities -- History -- To 1500
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Alternative medicine.
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Civilization, Classical.
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Civilization, Medieval.
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Therapeutics, Physiological.
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Civilization, Ancient.
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Medicine, Medieval.
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Disabled Persons -- history
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Complementary Therapies
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Sociological Factors
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Health Services for Persons with Disabilities -- history
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History, Medieval
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History, Ancient
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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Therapeutics, Physiological
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Medicine, Medieval
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Civilization, Ancient
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Alternative medicine
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Civilization, Classical
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Civilization, Medieval
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People with disabilities
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People with mental disabilities
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SUBJECT |
Europe -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045687
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Europe. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045631
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Europe |
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Europe
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Krötzl, Christian, editor
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Mustakallio, Katariina, editor
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Kuuliala, Jenni, editor
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ISBN |
9781472438355 |
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1472438353 |
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9781472438348 |
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1472438345 |
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