Bodies of knowledge
Subtitle: cultural interpretations of illness and medicine in medieval Europe
By: edited by Sally Crawford, Christina Lee
Series: BAR international series -- 2170; Studies in early medicine -- 1; BAR international series -- 2170.; BAR international series -- 1.
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 70
ISBN-13: 9781407307145
Subjects: Medieval Medicine
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Sally Crawford and Christina Lee; title: Rage possession: a cognitive science approach to early English demon possession / Kirsten C. Uszkalo; title: Outlawry and moral perversion in Old Norse society / Anne Irene Riisøy; title: Hermaphroditism in the western Middle Ages: physicians, lawyers and the intersexed person / Irina Metzler; title: The nadir of Western medicine? Texts, contexts and practice in Anglo-Saxon England / Sally Crawford; title: 'This should not be shown to a gentile': medico-magical texts in medieval Franco-German Jewish rabbinic manuscripts / Ephraim Shoham-Steiner; title: Asclepius, biographical dictionaries, and the transmission of science in the medieval Muslim world / Keren Abbou Hershkovits.