Death and disease in the medieval and early modern world : perspectives from across the Mediterranean and beyond /: perspectives from across the Mediterranean and beyond. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Lori Jones, Nükhet Varlik.
• Editors: (Medical historian), Jones, Lori; Varlik, Nükhet
• Contents: Intersections: Disease and Death, Medicine and Religion, Medieval and Early Modern; LORI JONES, NÜKHET VARLIK AND WINSTON BLACK; ; PART I: DIAGNOSING, EXPLAINING AND RECORDING; 1 Knowing the Signs of Disease: Plague in the Arabic Medical Commentaries between the First and Second Pandemics; NAHYAN FANCY; 2 The Legal Foundations of Post-Mortem Diagnosis in Later Medieval Milan; ANN G. CARMICHAEL; 3 Epidemic Illness in the Last Book of Giovanni Villani's New Chronicle, 1345-1348: Warfare, Sin and the Heavens; NICOLE ARCHAMBEAU; 4 Colours of Disease and Death in the Early Modern Ottoman Cultural Imagination; NÜKHET VARLIK; ; PART II: COPING, PREVENTING AND HEALING; 5 The Role of Music in a Franciscan Liturgy for the End of Life, as Evidenced in Manuscript Newberry 24; ELAINE STRATTON HILD; 6 Medical and Spiritual Healing of Death and Disease in Medieval Miracle Stories; JENNIFER C. EDWARDS; 7 Infirmity and Death-Wishes in Medieval French and Italian Canonisation Processes; JENNI KUULIALA; 8 Bubo Men? Repurposing Medieval Anatomic Illustrations for Plague Therapy in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries; LORI JONES; 9 Psalm 38 as Plague Diagnostic and Prophylactic in Abraham Yagel's Moshi'ah Ḥosim (1587); ANDREW BERNS; 10 The Protection of Innocents: Red Coral as a Lapidary Cure for the 'Children's Disease' and Conditions Related to Childbirth in Medieval and Early Modern England; NICHOLA E. HARRIS; ; PART III: STUDYING, ANALYSING AND INTERPRETING; 11 Leprosy in Medieval Europe: An Immunological and Syndemic Approach; FABIAN CRESPO; 12 Past Plagues: On the Synergies of Genetic and Historical Interpretations of Infectious Disease; HENDRIK POINAR; ; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
• Publisher Details: Woodbridge : York Medieval Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource (320 pages)
• Subjects: 610.902; Medicine, Medieval; Medicine, Medieval -- Sources; Mortality -- History -- To 1500; Death -- History -- To 1500; Death; Medicine, Medieval; Mortality; History; Sources
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800107878; 1800107870
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.