ABSTRACT
This book examines aspects of performance culture, and of the practice of healthcare and medicine, and some of the complex interconnections between these two fundamental areas of human endeavour. The published and unpublished early modern documents it draws on include substantial and rarely cited Germanlanguage writings by three physicians. One has achieved worldwide recognition as a physician, one is better known as a traveller, and the third is little known even within the German-speaking regions. This book focuses on how they engaged with and recorded the theatrical and festival culture of their time, and what their writings communicate about it in general, and also about healing performers, the performance of healing, and influences between healthcare and the stage, in its widest sense.
