Death, sickness and health in medieval society and culture / edited by Susan J. Ridyard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ridyard, Susan J. (Susan Janet), 1957-

Series:

Sewanee mediaeval studies ; no. 10.

Sewanee mediaeval studies ; no. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death--Social aspects--Europe--History.

Death.

Death--Europe--Religious aspects--History.

Diseases and history.

Death--Social aspects.

History.

Europe.

Death in literature.

Diseases and history--Europe.

Medicine, Medieval.

Physical Description:

iii, 246 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Sewanee, Tenn. : University of the South Press, 2000.

Contents:

Before and after the black death : a monastic infirmary in fourteenth-century England / Barbara F. Harvey

Death natural and unnatural ; The very idea of disease / Mark D. Jordan

Representations of death in Le chevalier deliberé / Carleton W. Carroll

Obsessed with death in Freiburg / Cynthia J. Cyrus

Buried the King's Trew Subject : the late medieval Englsh heraldic funeral in decline / J.F.R. Day

Some traditions of poetical pathology in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde / John V. Fleming

Dante's Adam's dropsy : a case-study in the literary etiology of the sickness of sin / James C. Nohrnberg

Optimus egrorum medicus fit Thomas bonorum : images of Saint Thomas Becket as healer / Kay B. Slocum

Pena brevior et levior : a new expression of concern for the dead in medieval missals / Janet Sorrentino

Edward II's indigent army : a study of royal corrodies / Larry W. Usilton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0918769493

OCLC:

45450610