Materialities of Disease Across the Medieval World : Images, Objects, and Remains.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Lori.

Contributor:

LORI JONES

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Arc Humanities Press, 2025.

Summary:

Offers new ways to think about how disease and death, healing and health, were considered, experienced, displayed, and portrayed across the global medieval world.

Contents:

Introduction "Tales of Medieval Disease in Three Acts—Images, Objects, and Remains" by Lori Jones

"By Its Spots: Leprosy as Medieval Illness" by Courtney A. Krolikoski

"Colonialism as Illness: Images of Disease and Violence from Early Colonial Mexico" by Edward Anthony Polanco

"Images of Death: Disease Representations in Sixteenth-Century New Spain" by Sandra Elena Guevara Flores

"Mondino’s X: Visualizing the Abdominal Muscles in Manuscript and Print" by Allen Shotwell with Tawrin Baker

"Corpses as Pathogenic Agents in Early Medieval Japan" by Andrew Macomber

"Christ’s Pharmacy: Theriac and Drug Jars in the Medieval Iconography of Disease Management" by Winston Black

"Solomon’s Jinns and the Art of Healing: Talismanic Objects in the Therapeutic Landscapes of Medieval Anatolia" by Bihter Esener

"Snakes, Rashes, and Afflicted Bodies: Terracottas and Images of Disease in Medieval West Africa" by Gérard Chouin

"From the Brahmanic to the Colonial: The Sojourn of a South Indian Goddess of Disease through the Axes of Pollution and Power" Malavika Binny

"Mobilities and Value of materia medica in Chinese Medicine for Childbirth" by Margaret Wee-Siang Ng

"A Portrait of Disease in Medieval Portugal: The Contribution of Palaeopathology" by Francisca Alves-Cardoso and Inês Belém

“'The Most Grevous Passioun': Dental Health and Disease in Late Medieval Britain," by Carole Rawcliffe.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-80270-351-9

1-80270-352-7

OCLC:

1521989756