Title: Hospitals and healing from antiquity to the later Middle Ages /
Authors: Horden, Peregrine.
Publisher: Ashgate Variorum,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Medicine, Medieval.; Hospitals, Medieval.; Medicine, Greek and Roman.; History, Medieval; Hospitals history; Delivery of Health Care history; History of Medicine; Byzantium.; Byzantium
Contents: How medicalized were Byzantine hospitals? -- The confraternities of Byzantium -- Ritual and public health in the early medieval city -- Religion as medicine: music in medieval hospitals -- A non-natural environment: medicine without doctors and the medieval European hospital -- Family history and hospital history in the MIddle Ages -- A discipline of relevance: the historiography of the later medieval hospital -- Pain in Hipocratic medicine -- Travel sickness: medicine and mobility in the Mediterranean from antiquity to the Renaissance -- The death of ascetics: sickness and monasticism in the early Byzantine Middle East -- Saints and doctors in the early Byzantine empire: the case of Theodore of Sykeon -- Responses to possession and insanity in the earlier Byzantine world -- Disease, dragons and saints: the management of epidemics in the Dark Ages -- Mediterranean plague in the age of Justinian -- the millennium bug: health and medicine around the year 1000 -- Continiuty and discontinuity in the history of Mediterranean music therapy.