Body and spirit in the middle ages : literature philosophy medicine A crucial question throughout the Middle Ages the relationship between body and spirit cannot be understood without an interdisciplinary approach combining literature philosophy and medicine. Gathering contributions by leading international scholars from these disciplines the collected volume explores themes such as lovesickness the five senses the role of memory and passions in order to shed new light on the complex nature of the medieval Self Frontmatter Contents Introduction La notion philosophico médicale de spiritus dans lAvicenne latin Skin the inner senses and the readers inner life in the Aviarium of Hugh of Fouilloy and related texts Les cinq sens le corps et lesprit Language Soul & Body (Parts) Corps et esprit The Medical the Philosophical and the Theological Discourses on the Senses La poésie mystique Animae sequuntur corpora Amour imagination et poésie dans loeuvre médicale de Gentile da Foligno Petrarch and the Senses Melancholy and Creativity in Petrarch Bodies without Minds Minds without Bodies Le « contact virtuel » entre un esprit et un corps et laction à distance Retorica delle passioni