Infirmity in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (eBook, ePUB)

Social and Cultural Approaches to Health, Weakness and Care
Redaktion: Krötzl, Christian; Kuuliala, Jenni; Mustakallio, Katariina

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume discusses infirmitas in ancient and medieval societies. It concentrates on the cultural, social and domestic aspects of physical and mental illness, impairment and health, and examines frailty as a more abstract, cultural construct. It seeks to widen our understanding of how physical and mental well-being and weakness were understood and constructed in the longue durée from antiquity to the Middle Ages. The chapters are written by experts from a variety of disciplines, including archaeology, art history and philology, and pay particular attention to the differences of experience due to gender, age and social status.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317116943
• Artikelnr.: 44864950

Autorenporträt

Christian Krotzl, Professor of History at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tampere, Finland. Katariina Mustakallio, Dean of the School of Language, Translation and Literary Studies, University of Tampere, Finland. Jenni Kuuliala, Researcher in Medieval History at the University of Bremen, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface / Introduction: Infirmitas in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Kuuliala
Mustakallio and Krötzl / Part I Defining Infirmity and Disability: Age
agency and disability: Suetonius and the emperors of the 1st century CE
Harlow and Laurence / Infirmitas or not? Short-statured persons in ancient Greece
Dasen / Performing dis/ability? Constructions of 'infirmity' in late medieval and early modern life writing
Frohne / Nobility
community and physical impairment in later medieval canonization processes
Kuuliala / Towards a glossary of depression and psychological distress in ancient Roman culture
Puliga / Part II Societal and Cultural Infirmitas: The crusader's stigmata: true crusading and the wounds of Christ in the crusade ideology of the 13th century
Tamminen / Illness
self-inflicted body pain and supernatural stigmata: three ways of identification with the suffering body of Christ
Klaniczay / Imagery of disease
poison and healing in the late 14th-century polemics against Waldensian heresy
Välimäki / Infirmitas Romana and its cure - Livy's history therapy in the Ab urbe condita
Mustakallio and Pyy / Part III Infirmity
Healing and Community: From Mithridatium to Potio sancti Pauli: the idea of a medicine from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Hautala / Alternative medicine in pre-Roman and republican Italy: sacred springs
curative baths and 'votive religion'
Griffith / Bathing the infirm: water basins in Roman iconography and household contexts
Berg / Sexual incapacity in medieval materia medica
Niiranen / Miracles and the body social: Infirmi in the middle Dutch miracle collection of Our Lady of Amersfoort
Van Mulder / Saints
healing and communities in the later Middle Ages: on roles and perceptions
Krötzl / Bibliography / Index.