Infirmity in antiquity and the middle ages
Subtitle: social and cultural approaches to health, weakness and care
By: edited by Christian Krötzl, Katariina Mustakallio and Jenni Kuuliala
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9781472438348; 9781472438355; 9781472438362
Subjects: People with disabilities; Classical Civilization; Medieval Civilization; Alternative medicine; History; People with mental disabilities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Notes on contributors; title: Preface; title: Introduction: infirmitas in antiquity and the middle ages / Christian Krötzl, Katariina Mustakallio and Jenni Kuuliala; title: I defining infirmity and disability; title: Age, agency and disability : suetonius and the emperors of the first century ce / Mary Harlow & Ray Laurence; title: Infirmitas or not? : short-statured persons in ancient Greece / Véronique Dasen; title: Performing dis/ability? : constructions of "infirmity" in late medieval and early modern life writing / Bianca Frohne; title: Nobility, community and physical impairment in later medieval canonization processes / Jenni Kuuliala; title: Towards a glossary of melancholy, depression and psychological distress in ancient Roman culture / Donatella Puliga; title: Societal and cultural infirmitas; title: The crusader's stigmata : true crusading and the wounds of Christ in the crusade ideology of the thirteenth century / Miikka Tamminen; title: Illness, self-inflicted body pain and supernatural stigmata : three ways of identification with the suffering body of Christ / Gábor Klaniczay; title: Imagery of disease, poison and healing in the late fourteenth-century polemics against Waldensian heresy / Reima Välimäki; title: Infirmitas romana and its cure : Livy's history therapy in the ab urbe condita / Katariina Mustakallio & Elina Pyy; title: Infirmity, healing and community; title: From Mithridatium to potio sancti Pauli : the idea of a medicine from antiquity to the middle ages / Svetlana Hautala; title: Alternative medicine in pre-Roman and Republican Italy : sacred springs, curative baths and "votive religion" / Alison Griffith; title: Bathing the infirm: water basins in Roman iconography and household contexts / Ria Berg; title: Sexual incapacity in medieval materia medica / Susanna Niiranen; title: Miracles and the body social : infirmi in the middle Dutch miracle collection of Our Lady of Amersfoort / Jonas Van Mulder; title: Saints, healing and communities in the later middle ages : on roles and perceptions / Christian Krötzl; title: Bibliography; title: Index.