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Author Horden, Peregrine, author

Title Cultures of healing : medieval and after / Peregrine Horden
Published London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2019

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Description 1 online resource
Series Variorum collected studies series
Collected studies.
Contents The world of the hospital : comparisons and continuities / with John Henderson and Alessandro Pastore -- Poverty, charity, and the invention of the hospital -- The earliest hospitals in Byzantium, Western Europe, and Islam -- Sickness and healing [in the Christian world, c.600-c.1100] -- The late Antique origins of the lunatic asylum? -- The sick family in the early Middle Ages : the evidence of Gregory of Tours -- What's wrong with early medieval medicine? -- Cities within cities : early hospital foundations and urban space -- Alms and the man : hospital founders in Byzantium -- The uses of medical manuscripts -- Medieval hospital formularies : Byzantium and Islam compared -- A context for Simon of Genoa's Medical Dictionary (Clavis sanationis) : medicine at the Papal Court in the later Middle Ages -- Small beer? : the parish and the poor and sick in later medieval England -- Musical solutions : past and present in music therapy -- Paracelsus : Renaissance therapy and its alternative -- Postscript to Chapter 15 : music therapy in Rabelais -- Aspects of music therapy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : Romanticism, the USA, Mesmerism, theosophy -- The prehistory of infant sexuality -- Thoughts of Freud -- Pandaemonium
Summary This volume brings together for the first time an updated collection of articles exploring poverty, poor relief, illness, and health care as they intersected in Western Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East, during a 'long' Middle Ages. It offers a thorough and wide-ranging investigation into the institution of the hospital and the development of medicine and charity, with focuses on the history of music therapy and the history of ideas and perceptions fundamental to psychoanalysis. The collection is both sequel and complement to Horden's earlier volume of collected studies, Hospitals and Healing from Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages (2008). It will be welcomed by all those interested in the premodern history of healing and welfare for its breadth of scope and scholarly depth
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Medicine, Medieval.
Hospitals, Medieval.
History, Medieval
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Atlases.
MEDICAL -- Essays.
MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Osteopathy.
HISTORY -- General.
Hospitals, Medieval
Medicine, Medieval
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020692942
ISBN 9780429023590
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