Description |
1 online resource (ii, 152 pages) : illustrations (colour) |
Contents |
Foreword -- Christina Lee; Introduction -- Erin Connelly and Stefanie Künzel; Chapter 1 -- Þu miht wiþ þam laþan ðe geond lond færð: Conceptualisations of Disease in Anglo-Saxon Charms -- Stefanie Künzel; Chapter 2 -- A Still Sound Mind: Personal Agency of Impaired People in Anglo-Saxon Care and Cure Narratives -- Marit Ronen; Chapter 3 -- Mobility Limitations and Assistive Aids in the Merovingian Burial Record -- Cathrin Hähn; Chapter 4 -- Tearing the Face in Grief and Rape: Cheek Rending in Medieval Iberia, c. 1000-1300 -- Rachel Welsh; Chapter 5 -- Clerical Leprosy and the Ecclesiastical Office: Dis/Ability and Canon Law -- Ninon Dubourg; Chapter 6 -- Inside the Leprosarium: Illness in the Daily Life of 14th Century Barcelona -- Clara Jáuregui; Chapter 7 -- Languages of Experience: Translating Medicine in MS Laud Misc 237 -- Lucy Barnhouse; Chapter 8 -- Heillög Bein, Brotin Bein: Manifestations of Disease in Medieval Iceland -- Cecilia Collins; Chapter 9 -- A Case Study of Plantago in the Treatment of Infected Wounds in the Middle English Translation of Bernard of Gordon's Lilium medicinae -- Erin Connelly; Chapter 10 -- Miserum spectaculum, horrendus fetor, aspectus horrendus: 'Syphilis' in Strasbourg at the Turn of the 16th Century -- Christoph Wieselhuber |
Summary |
An interdisciplinary collection of papers focusing on infections, chronic illness, and the impact of infectious diseases on Medieval society, with contributions by academics from a variety of disciplines and a diverse range of international institutions |
Notes |
Previously issued in print: 2018 |
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Selected conference papers |
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Available through Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service |
Audience |
Specialized |
Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 9, 2018) |
Subject |
Communicable diseases -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses
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Disabilities -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses
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Medicine, Medieval -- Europe -- Congresses
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Medicine, Medieval -- Social aspects -- Europe -- Congresses
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
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Communicable diseases
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Disabilities
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Medicine, Medieval
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Europe
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Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Connelly, Erin, editor
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Künzel, Stefanie, editor
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Archaeopress, publisher.
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ISBN |
1784918849 |
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9781784918842 |
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