Infirmity in Antiquity and the Middle Ages : Social and Cultural Approaches to Health, Weakness and Care
Jenni Kuuliala
Bok Engelsk 2015 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Farnham : : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, , 2015.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (334 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures and Tables""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction Infirmitas in Antiquity and the Middle Ages""; ""PART I Defining Infirmity and Disability""; ""1 Age, Agency and Disability: Suetonius and the Emperors of the First Century CE""; ""2 Infirmitas or Not? Short-statured Persons in Ancient Greece ""; ""3 Performing Dis/ability? Constructions of ?Infirmity? in Late Medieval and Early Modern Life Writing""; ""4 Nobility, Community and Physical Impairment in Later Medieval Canonization Processes "". - ""15 Saints, Healing and Communities in the Later Middle Ages: On Roles and Perceptions""""Bibliography""; ""Index"". - ""5 Towards a Glossary of Depression and Psychological Distress in Ancient Roman Culture""""PART II Societal and Cultural Infirmitas""; ""6 The Crusader?s Stigmata: True Crusading and the Wounds of Christ in the Crusade Ideology of the Thirteenth Century""; ""7 Illness, Self-inflicted Body Pain and Supernatural Stigmata: Three Ways of Identification with the Suffering Body of Christ ""; ""8 Imagery of Disease, Poison and Healing in the Late Fourteenth-century Polemics against Waldensian Heresy""; ""9 Infirmitas Romana and its Cure ? Livy?s History Therapy in the Ab urbe condita"". - ""PART III Infirmity, Healing and Community""""10 From Mithridatium to Potio Sancti Pauli: The Idea of a Medicine from Antiquity to the Middle Ages""; ""11 Alternative Medicine in Pre-Roman and Republican Italy: Sacred Springs, Curative Baths and ?Votive Religion?""; ""12 Bathing the Infirm: Water Basins in Roman Iconography and Household Contexts""; ""13 Sexual Incapacity in Medieval Materia Medica""; ""14 Miracles and the Body Social:Infirmi in the Middle Dutch Miracle Collection of Our Lady of Amersfoort ""
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| Emner | Alternative medicine.
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| ISBN | 9781472438348
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