Wounds and wound repair in medieval culture / edited by Larissa Tracy and Kelly DeVries.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tracy, Larissa, 1974- editor.

DeVries, Kelly, 1956- editor.

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

Explorations in medieval culture ; Vol. 1.

Explorations in medieval culture ; Vol. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wounds and injuries--Treatment.

Wounds and injuries.

Military history, Medieval--Bibliography.

Military history, Medieval.

Wounds and Injuries--history.

First Aid--history.

General Surgery--history.

Military Medicine--history.

Armed Conflicts--history.

Amputation, Surgical--history.

Violence--history.

Leprosy--history.

Blindness--history.

Medical Subjects:

Wounds and Injuries--history.

First Aid--history.

General Surgery--history.

Military Medicine--history.

Armed Conflicts--history.

Amputation, Surgical--history.

Violence--history.

Leprosy--history.

Blindness--history.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 645 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Summary:

The spectacle of the wounded body figured prominently in the Middle Ages, from images of Christ's wounds on the cross, to the ripped and torn bodies of tortured saints who miraculously heal through divine intervention, to graphic accounts of battlefield and tournament wounds-evidence of which survives in the archaeological record-and literary episodes of fatal (or not so fatal) wounds. This volume offers a comprehensive look at the complexity of wounding and wound repair in medieval literature and culture, bringing together essays from a wide range of sources and disciplines including arms and armaments, military history, medical history, literature, art history, hagiography, and archaeology across medieval and early modern Europe. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 The Physicality of Wounds

Section 1 Archeology and Material Culture

1 Battle Trauma in Medieval Warfare: Wounds, Weapons and Armor / Robert C. Woosnam-Savage Woosnam-Savage, Robert C., Kelly DeVries DeVries, Kelly 27

2 "And to describe the shapes of the dead": Making Sense of the Archaeology of Armed Violence / M.R. Geldof Geldof, M.R. 57

3 Visible Prowess?: Reading Men's Head and Face Wounds in Early Medieval Europe to 1000 CE / Patricia Skinner Skinner, Patricia 81

4 Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes: Injury and Death in Anglo-Scottish Combat, c. 1296-C.1403 / Iain A. MacInnes MacInnes, Iain A. 102

5 "...Vnnd schüβ im vnder dem schwert den ort lang ein zu der brust": The Placement and Consequences of Sword-blows in Sigmund Ringeck's Fifteenth-Century Fencing Manual / Rachel E. Kellett Kellett, Rachel E. 128

Section 2 Surgery

6 The Diagnosis and Treatment of Wounds in the Old English Medical Collections: Anglo-Saxon Surgery? / Debby Banham Banham, Debby, Christine Voth Voth, Christine 153

7 Spitting Blood: Medieval Mongol Medical Practices / Timothy May May, Timothy 175

8 The Wounded Soldier: Honey and Late Medieval Military Medicine / Ilana Krug Krug, Ilana 194

9 "The Depth of Six Inches": Prince Hal's Head-Wound at the Battle of Shrewsbury / Michael Livingston Livingston, Michael 215

Section 3 Law

10 Wounds, Amputations, and Expert Procedures in the City of Valencia in the Early-Fifteenth Century / Carmel Ferragud Ferragud, Carmel 233

11 The Mutilation of Derbforgaill / Charlene M. Eska Eska, Charlene M. 252

Part 2 The Spirituality of Wounds

Section 4 Stigmata

12 "The Wounded Surgeon": Devotion, Compassion and Metaphor in Medieval England / Virginia Langum Langum, Virginia 269

13 "Scarce anyone survives a heart wound": The Wounded Christ in Irish Bardic Religious Poetry / Salvador Ryan Ryan, Salvador 291

14 Penetrating the Void: Picturing the Wound in Christ's Side as a Performative Space / Vibeke Olson Olson, Vibeke 313

15 Wandering Wounds: The Urban Body in Imitatio Christi / Elina Gertsman Gertsman, Elina 340

Section 5 Passionate Wounds

16 Ascetic Blood: Ethics, Suffering and Community in Late-Medieval Culture / Joshua S. Easterling Easterling, Joshua S. 369

17 Christ's Suppurating Wounds: Leprosy in the Vita of Alice of Schaerbeek (250) / Alicia Spencer-Hall Spencer-Hall, Alicia 389

18 Wounding the Body and Freeing the Spirit: Dorothea von Montau's Bloody Quest for Christ, a Late-Medieval Phenomenon of the Extraordinary Kind / Albrecht Classen Classen, Albrecht 417

19 In the Bursting of an Eye: Blinding and Blindness in Ireland's Medieval Hagiography / Máire Johnson Johnson, Máire 448

Part 3 The Literature of Wounds

20 The Laconic Scar in Early Irish Literature / William Sayers Sayers, William 473

21 "Into the hede, throw the helme and creste": Head Wounds and a Question of Kingship in the Stanzaic Morte Arthur / Larissa Tracy Tracy, Larissa 496

22 "They... toke their shyldys before them and drew oute their swerdys ...": Inflicting and Healing Wounds in Malory's Morte Darthur / Stephen Atkinson Atkinson, Stephen 519

23 Women's Wounds in Middle English Romances: An Exploration of Defilement, Disfigurement, and a Society in Disrepair / Barbara A. Goodman Goodman, Barbara A. 544.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9004292799

9789004292796

OCLC:

918591047

Publisher Number:

99965851326