H 245 x W 175 mm
156 pages
2 figures, 1 table (2 plates in colour)
Published Sep 2018
ISBN
Paperback: 9781784918835
Digital: 9781784918842
Keywords
Anglo-Saxon; medieval medicine; leprosy; syphilis; bald’s eyesalve; Merovingian; infection; cheek rending; hospital; disability; disease; leprosarium
Edited by Erin Connelly, Stefanie Künzel
An interdisciplinary collection of papers focussing on infections, chronic illness, and the impact of infectious diseases on medieval society, with contributions by academics from a variety of disciplines and a diverse range of international institutions.
Foreword - Christina Lee; Introduction - Erin Connelly and Stefanie Künzel; Chapter 1 - Þu miht wiþ þam laþan ðe geond lond færð: Conceptualisations of Disease in Anglo-Saxon Charms - Stefanie Künzel; Chapter 2 - A Still Sound Mind: Personal Agency of Impaired People in Anglo-Saxon Care and Cure Narratives - Marit Ronen; Chapter 3 - Mobility Limitations and Assistive Aids in the Merovingian Burial Record - Cathrin Hähn; Chapter 4 - Tearing the Face in Grief and Rape: Cheek Rending in Medieval Iberia, c. 1000–1300 - Rachel Welsh; Chapter 5 - Clerical Leprosy and the Ecclesiastical Office: Dis/Ability and Canon Law - Ninon Dubourg; Chapter 6 - Inside the Leprosarium: Illness in the Daily Life of 14th Century Barcelona - Clara Jáuregui; Chapter 7 - Languages of Experience: Translating Medicine in MS Laud Misc 237 - Lucy Barnhouse; Chapter 8 - Heillög Bein, Brotin Bein: Manifestations of Disease in Medieval Iceland - Cecilia Collins; Chapter 9 - A Case Study of Plantago in the Treatment of Infected Wounds in the Middle English Translation of Bernard of Gordon’s Lilium medicinae - Erin Connelly; Chapter 10 - Miserum spectaculum, horrendus fetor, aspectus horrendus: “Syphilis” in Strasbourg at the Turn of the 16th Century - Christoph Wieselhuber