Format:
xii, 319 Seiten
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781472438348
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1472438345
Content:
Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: infirmitas in antiquity and the middle ages / Christian Krötzl, Katariina Mustakallio and Jenni Kuuliala -- I defining infirmity and disability -- Age, agency and disability : suetonius and the emperors of the first century ce / Mary Harlow & Ray Laurence -- Infirmitas or not? : short-statured persons in ancient Greece / Véronique Dasen -- Performing dis/ability? : constructions of "infirmity" in late medieval and early modern life writing / Bianca Frohne -- Nobility, community and physical impairment in later medieval canonization processes / Jenni Kuuliala -- Towards a glossary of melancholy, depression and psychological distress in ancient Roman culture / Donatella Puliga -- Societal and cultural infirmitas -- The crusader's stigmata : true crusading and the wounds of Christ in the crusade ideology of the thirteenth century / Miikka Tamminen -- Illness, self-inflicted body pain and supernatural stigmata : three ways of identification with the suffering body of Christ / Gábor Klaniczay -- Imagery of disease, poison and healing in the late fourteenth-century polemics against Waldensian heresy / Reima Välimäki -- Infirmitas romana and its cure : Livy's history therapy in the ab urbe condita / Katariina Mustakallio & Elina Pyy -- Infirmity, healing and community -- From Mithridatium to potio sancti Pauli : the idea of a medicine from antiquity to the middle ages / Svetlana Hautala -- Alternative medicine in pre-Roman and Republican Italy : sacred springs, curative baths and "votive religion" / Alison Griffith -- Bathing the infirm: water basins in Roman iconography and household contexts / Ria Berg -- Sexual incapacity in medieval materia medica / Susanna Niiranen -- Miracles and the body social : infirmi in the middle Dutch miracle collection of Our Lady of Amersfoort / Jonas Van Mulder -- Saints, healing and communities in the later middle ages : on roles and perceptions / Christian Krötzl -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
"Many of the chapters included in this volume were presented in their preliminary form in the conference: Passages from Antiquity to the Middle Ages V: Infirmitas: Social and cultural approaches to cure, caring and health", organised by Trivium - Tampere Centre for Classical, Medieval and Early Modern Studies and held at the University of Tampere in August 2012" (Preface)
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Notes on contributorsPreface ; Introduction: infirmitas in antiquity and the middle ages
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I defining infirmity and disability ; Age, agency and disability : suetonius and the emperors of the first century ce
,
Infirmitas or not? : short-statured persons in ancient Greece
,
Performing dis/ability? : constructions of "infirmity" in late medieval and early modern life writing
,
Nobility, community and physical impairment in later medieval canonization processes
,
Towards a glossary of melancholy, depression and psychological distress in ancient Roman culture
,
Societal and cultural infirmitas ; The crusader's stigmata : true crusading and the wounds of Christ in the crusade ideology of the thirteenth century
,
Illness, self-inflicted body pain and supernatural stigmata : three ways of identification with the suffering body of Christ
,
Imagery of disease, poison and healing in the late fourteenth-century polemics against Waldensian heresy
,
Infirmitas romana and its cure : Livy's history therapy in the ab urbe condita
,
Infirmity, healing and community ; From Mithridatium to potio sancti Pauli : the idea of a medicine from antiquity to the middle ages
,
Alternative medicine in pre-Roman and Republican Italy : sacred springs, curative baths and "votive religion"
,
Bathing the infirm: water basins in Roman iconography and household contexts
,
Sexual incapacity in medieval materia medica
,
Miracles and the body social : infirmi in the middle Dutch miracle collection of Our Lady of Amersfoort
,
Saints, healing and communities in the later middle ages : on roles and perceptions
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Bibliography ; Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781472438355
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781472438362
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Europa
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Schwäche
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Behinderung
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Geschichte 500 v. Chr.-1500
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Aufsatzsammlung
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