Infirmity In Antiquity And The Middle Ages

Author : Christian Krötzl,Katariina Mustakallio,Jenni Kuuliala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317116943

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This volume discusses infirmitas (’infirmity’ or ’weakness’) in ancient and medieval societies. It concentrates on the cultural, social and domestic aspects of physical and mental illness, impairment and health, and also 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. The book opens with chapters on the more theoretical aspects of pre-modern infirmity and disability, moving on to discuss different types of mental and cultural infirmities, including those with positive connotations, such as medieval stigmata. The last section of the book discusses infirmity in everyday life from the perspective of healing, medicine and care.

Author : Christian Krötzl,Katariina Mustakallio,Jenni Kuuliala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317116950

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Infirmity in Antiquity and the Middle Ages by Christian Krötzl,Katariina Mustakallio,Jenni Kuuliala Pdf

This volume discusses infirmitas (’infirmity’ or ’weakness’) in ancient and medieval societies. It concentrates on the cultural, social and domestic aspects of physical and mental illness, impairment and health, and also 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. The book opens with chapters on the more theoretical aspects of pre-modern infirmity and disability, moving on to discuss different types of mental and cultural infirmities, including those with positive connotations, such as medieval stigmata. The last section of the book discusses infirmity in everyday life from the perspective of healing, medicine and care.

Author : Christian Laes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317231547

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Disability in Antiquity by Christian Laes Pdf

This volume is a major contribution to the field of disability history in the ancient world. Contributions from leading international scholars examine deformity and disability from a variety of historical, sociological and theoretical perspectives, as represented in various media. The volume is not confined to a narrow view of ‘antiquity’ but includes a large number of pieces on ancient western Asia that provide a broad and comparative view of the topic and enable scholars to see this important topic in the round. Disability in Antiquity is the first multidisciplinary volume to truly map out and explore the topic of disability in the ancient world and create new avenues of thought and research.

Author : Jonathan Hsy,Tory V. Pearman,Joshua R. Eyler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350028722

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A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages by Jonathan Hsy,Tory V. Pearman,Joshua R. Eyler Pdf

The Middle Ages was an era of dynamic social transformation, and notions of disability in medieval culture reflected how norms and forms of embodiment interacted with gender, class, and race, among other dimensions of human difference. Ideas of disability in courtly romance, saints' lives, chronicles, sagas, secular lyrics, dramas, and pageants demonstrate the nuanced, and sometimes contradictory, relationship between cultural constructions of disability and the lived experience of impairment. An essential resource for researchers, scholars, and students of history, literature, visual art, cultural studies, and education, A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages explores themes and topics such as atypical bodies; mobility impairment; chronic pain and illness; blindness; deafness; speech; learning difficulties; and mental health.

Author : Geoffrey D. Dunn,Darius von Guttner Sporzynski
Publisher : The Australian Early Medieval Association Inc.
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association by Geoffrey D. Dunn,Darius von Guttner Sporzynski Pdf

The journal welcomes papers on historical, literary, archaeological, cultural, and artistic themes, particularly interdisciplinary papers and those that make an innovative and significant contribution to the understanding of the early medieval world and stimulate further discussion. For submission details please see the association website: www.aema.net.au. Submissions then may be sent to [email protected].

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004458260

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Kids Those Days: Children in Medieval Culture by Anonim Pdf

Kids Those Days is a collection of interdisciplinary research into medieval childhood. Contributors investigate abandonment and abuse, fosterage and guardianship, criminal behavior and child-rearing, child bishops and sainthood, disabilities and miracles, and a wide variety of other subjects related to medieval children.

Author : Raisa Maria Toivo,Sari Katajala-Peltomaa
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004328877

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Lived Religion and the Long Reformation in Northern Europe c. 1300–1700 by Raisa Maria Toivo,Sari Katajala-Peltomaa Pdf

Using "lived religion" as its conceptual tool, this book explores how the Reformation showed itself in and was influenced by lay people's everyday lives. It reinvestigates the character of the Reformation in what later became the heartlands of Lutheranism.

Author : Danièle Cybulskie
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526733467

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Life in Medieval Europe by Danièle Cybulskie Pdf

“A lovely, witty treasure trove of a book, spilling over with historical gems . . . a very human history: sometimes weird, always wonderful.” —Dan Jones, New York Times-bestselling author Have you ever found yourself watching a show or reading a novel and wondering what life was really like in the Middle Ages? What did people actually eat? Were they really filthy? And did they ever get to marry for love? In Life in Medieval Europe: Fact and Fiction, you’ll find fast and fun answers to all your secret questions, from eating and drinking to sex and love. Find out whether people bathed, what they did when they got sick, and what actually happened to people accused of crimes. Learn about medieval table manners, tournaments, and toothpaste, and find out if people really did poop in the moat. “To say that this book was fun to read would be an understatement. Cybulskie’s knowledge radiates in every page of this short book . . . It was educational and entertaining all at the same time. Simply a wonderful resource for novice medievalists and writers of historical fiction and nonfiction alike.” —Adventures of a Tudor Nerd “All in all, this is an excellent book to put to bed many of the myths surrounding medieval existence that persist in the popular imagination. Easy to read and well worth the time to read it. I highly recommend this book if you want to get a mostly unbiased view of medieval life.” —Battles and Book Reviews

Author : Karen Klaiber Hersch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350179653

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A Cultural History of Marriage in Antiquity by Karen Klaiber Hersch Pdf

Marriage, across cultures, is often defined as a union between consenting adults that lasts for the life of the partners. But is marriage a blessing, or curse? Does marriage represent the union of two hearts, or was it a necessary evil? Did matrimony bring a person a helpmeet for life, or was it a societally approved state entered into to improve one's social standing and produce legitimate heirs? The authors of this volume show that the peoples of the ancient Mediterranean were divided on all of these questions, and reveal ancient Greek and Roman opinions on marriage that were as varied and complex as they are today. Readers will discover in this book that ancients juggled multiple ideas that to the modern eye may appear to be contradictory. Thus, for example, Greek and Roman wives were expected to come to their grooms spotless virgins, while Greek and Roman husbands could enjoy multiple partnerships outside the marital union. Guided by our experts, we take an extensive journey through time and space, encountering evidence from such sources as diverse as Hammurabic law codes, Egyptian papyri, Greek epic and tragedy, Roman inscriptions and writings on the lives of early Christians. Applying innovative approaches and diverse methodologies, the authors of this volume reveal the tension and reconciliation between representations of marriage in antiquity and its lived reality. A Cultural History of Marriage in Antiquity presents an overview of the period with essays on Courtship and Ritual; Religion, State and Law; Kinship and Social Networks; the Family Economy; Love and Sex; the Breaking of Vows; and Representations of Marriage.

Author : Christian Laes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350028531

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A Cultural History of Disability in Antiquity by Christian Laes Pdf

Though there was not even a word for, or a concept of, disability in Antiquity, a considerable part of the population experienced physical or mental conditions that put them at a disadvantage. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, from literary texts and legal sources to archaeological and iconographical evidence as well as comparative anthropology, this volume uniquely examines contexts and conditions of disability in the ancient world. An essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of history, literature, culture and education, A Cultural History of Disability in Antiquity explores such themes and topics as: atypical bodies; mobility impairment; chronic pain and illness; blindness; deafness; speech; learning difficulties; and mental health.

Author : Marcia H. Rioux
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1801 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789811960567

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Handbook of Disability by Marcia H. Rioux Pdf

Author : Donna Trembinski
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Christian saints
ISBN : 9781487507411

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Illness and Authority by Donna Trembinski Pdf

Illness and Authority is the first monograph-length study to examine a well-known medieval saint from the perspective of disability studies.

Author : Sari Katajala-Peltomaa
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198850465

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Demonic Possession and Lived Religion in Later Medieval Europe by Sari Katajala-Peltomaa Pdf

Demonic possession was a spiritual state that often had physical symptoms; however, in Demonic Possession and Lived Religion in Later Medieval Europe, Sari Katajala-Peltomaa argues that demonic possession was a social phenomenon which should be understood with regard to the community and culture. She focuses on significant case studies from canonization processes (c. 1240-1450) which show how each set of sources formed its own specific context, in which demonic presence derived from different motivations, reasonings, and methods of categorization. The chosen perspective is that of lived religion, which is both a thematic approach and a methodology: a focus on rituals, symbols, and gestures, as well as sensitivity to nuances and careful contextualizing of the cases are constitutive elements of the argumentation. The analysis contests the hierarchy between the 'learned' and the 'popular' within religion, as well as the existence of a strict polarity between individual and collective religious participation. Demonic presence disclosed negotiations over authority and agency; it shows how the personal affected the communal, and vice versa, and how they were eventually transformed into discourses and institutions of the Church; that is, definitions of the miraculous and the diabolical. Geographically, the volume covers Western Europe, comparing Northern and Southern material and customs. The structure follows the logic of the phenomenon, beginning with the background reasons offered as a cause of demonic possession, continuing with communities' responses and emotions, including construction of sacred caregiving methods. Finally, the ways in which demonic presence contributed to wider societal debates in the fields of politics and spirituality are discussed. Alterity and inversion of identity, gender, and various forms of corporeality and the interplay between the sacred and diabolical are themes that run all through the volume.

Author : Winston Black
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781770487192

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Medicine and Healing in the Premodern West: A History in Documents by Winston Black Pdf

Medicine and Healing in the Premodern West traces the history of medicine and medical practice from Ancient Egypt through to the end of the Middle Ages. Featuring nearly one hundred primary documents and images, this book introduces readers to the words and ideas of men and women from across Europe and the Mediterranean Sea, from prominent physicians to humble healers. Each of the book’s ten chronological and thematic chapters is given a significant historical introduction, in which each primary source is described in its original context. Many of the included source texts are newly translated by the editor, some of them appearing in English for the first time.

Author : Jane Draycott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351232371

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Prostheses in Antiquity by Jane Draycott Pdf

Today, a prosthesis is an artificial device that replaces a missing body part, generally designed and assembled according to the individual’s appearance and functional needs with a view to being both as unobtrusive and as useful as possible. In classical antiquity, however, this was not necessarily the case. The ancient literary and documentary evidence for prostheses and prosthesis use is contradictory, and the bioarchaeological and archaeological evidence is enigmatic, but discretion and utility were not necessarily priorities. So, when, howand why did individuals utilise them? This volume, the first to explore prostheses and prosthesis use in classical antiquity, seeks to answer these questions, and will be of interest to academics and students with specialistinterests in classical archaeology, ancient history and history, especially those engaged in studies of healing, medical and surgical practices, or impairment and disability in past societies.