عنوان

Infirmity in antiquity and the middle ages :

(Number (ISBN

1472438345

(Number (ISBN

9781472438348

Erroneous ISBN

9781472438355

Erroneous ISBN

9781472438362

Title Proper

Infirmity in antiquity and the middle ages :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

social and cultural approaches to health, weakness and care /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Christian Krötzl, University of Tampere, Finland, Katariina Mustakallio, University of Tampere, Finland, Jenni Kuuliala, University of Bremen, Germany.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Burlington, VT :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Ashgate,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xii, 319 pages ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: infirmitas in antiquity and the middle ages / Christian Krötzl, Katariina Mustakallio and Jenni Kuuliala -- I defining infirmity and disability -- Age, agency and disability : suetonius and the emperors of the first century ce / Mary Harlow & Ray Laurence -- Infirmitas or not? : short-statured persons in ancient Greece / Véronique Dasen -- Performing dis/ability? : constructions of "infirmity" in late medieval and early modern life writing / Bianca Frohne -- Nobility, community and physical impairment in later medieval canonization processes / Jenni Kuuliala -- Towards a glossary of melancholy, depression and psychological distress in ancient Roman culture / Donatella Puliga -- Societal and cultural infirmitas -- The crusader's stigmata : true crusading and the wounds of Christ in the crusade ideology of the thirteenth century / Miikka Tamminen -- Illness, self-inflicted body pain and supernatural stigmata : three ways of identification with the suffering body of Christ / Gábor Klaniczay -- Imagery of disease, poison and healing in the late fourteenth-century polemics against Waldensian heresy / Reima Välimäki -- Infirmitas romana and its cure : Livy's history therapy in the ab urbe condita / Katariina Mustakallio & Elina Pyy -- Infirmity, healing and community -- From Mithridatium to potio sancti Pauli : the idea of a medicine from antiquity to the middle ages / Svetlana Hautala -- Alternative medicine in pre-Roman and Republican Italy : sacred springs, curative baths and "votive religion" / Alison Griffith -- Bathing the infirm: water basins in Roman iconography and household contexts / Ria Berg -- Sexual incapacity in medieval materia medica / Susanna Niiranen -- Miracles and the body social : infirmi in the middle Dutch miracle collection of Our Lady of Amersfoort / Jonas Van Mulder -- Saints, healing and communities in the later middle ages : on roles and perceptions / Christian Krötzl -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Europa

Alternative medicine.

Civilization, Classical.

Civilization, Medieval.

People with disabilities-- History-- To 1500.

People with mental disabilities-- History-- To 1500.

Disabled Persons-- history.

Health Services for Persons with Disabilities-- history.

History, Ancient.

History, Medieval.

Sociological Factors.

Alternativ medicin.

Alternative medicine.

Antiken.

Behinderung

Civilization, Classical.

Civilization, Medieval.

Gebrechlichkeit

Medeltiden.

People with disabilities.

People with mental disabilities.

Personer med funktionsnedsättning.

Schwäche

Europe, History.

Europe.

Europe.

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Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Class number

Class number

Krötzl, Christian

Kuuliala, Jenni

Mustakallio, Katariina

Date of Transaction

20200823030016.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

rda

Electronic name

[Book]

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