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The Middle Ages (c.500–c.1500) are wellknown for the growth of universities and urban regulations, plague pandemics, increasingly sophisticated ways of causing injury in warfare, and abiding frameworks for health and illness provided by religion. Increasingly, however, archaeologists, historians and literary specialists have come together to flesh out the daily lives of medieval people at all levels of society, both in Christian Europe and the Islamic Mediterranean. A Cultural History of Medicine in the Middle Ages follows suit, but also brings new approaches and comparisons into the conversation. Through the investigation of poems, pottery, personal letters, recipes and petitions, and through a breadth of topics running from street-cleaning, cooking and amulets to religious treatises and death rituals, this volume accords new meaning and value to the period and those who lived it. Its chapters confirm that the study of latrines, patterns of manuscript circulation, miracle narratives, sermons, skeletons, metaphors and so on, have as much to tell us about attitudes towards health and illness as do medical texts. Delving within and beyond texts, and focusing on the sensory, the experiential, the personal, the body and the spirit, this volume celebrates and critiques the diverse and complex cultural history of medieval health and medicine.

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Roger Cooter is Wellcome Professorial Fellow at UCL Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, UK.

Table of Contents

List of IllustrationsGeneral Editors' Preface, Roger CooterIntroduction: the Cultural History of Health, Iona McCleery 1 Environment: Managing Urban Sanitation for Sanitas, Dolly Jørgensen2 Food: From Healthy Regimen to Consumption and Supply, Iona McCleery3 Disease: Confronting, Consoling, and Constructing the Afflicted Body, Justin Stearns4 Animals: Their Use and Meaning in Medieval Medicine, Kathleen Walker-Meikle5 Objects: The Archaeology of Medieval Healing, Gemma L. Watson and Roberta Gilchrist6 Experiences: Feeling Unhealthy in the Middle Ages, Naama Cohen-Hanegbi7 Mind/Brain: Medieval Concepts, Wendy J. Turner8 Authority: Trusting the Text in the Early Middle Ages, F. Eliza GlazeNotesBibliographyContributorsIndex

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A comprehensive, thematic reference work covering the cultural history of medicine in the Middle Ages

Details ISBN1350451495 Author Iona McCleery Pages 272 Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781350451490 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-09-19 Imprint Bloomsbury Academic Edited by Iona McCleery DEWEY 610.9 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Series The Cultural Histories Series Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations 42 bw illus Audience Tertiary & Higher Education UK Release Date 2024-09-19 AU Release Date 2024-10-16 ISBN-10 1350451495 We've got this

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