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Wounds in the Middle Ages

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Wounds in the Middle Ages book

Wounds in the Middle Ages

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Wounds in the Middle Ages book

Edited ByAnne Kirkham, Cordelia Warr
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2014
eBook Published 11 February 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315546230
Pages 270 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315546230
SubjectsArts, Humanities
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Kirkham, A. (Ed.), Warr, C. (Ed.). (2014). Wounds in the Middle Ages. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315546230

Wounds were a potent signifier reaching across all aspects of life in Europe in the middle ages, and their representation, perception and treatment is the focus of this volume. Following a survey of the history of medical wound treatment in the middle ages, paired chapters explore key themes situating wounds within the context of religious belief, writing on medicine, status and identity, and surgical practice. The final chapter reviews the history of medieval wounding through the modern imagination. Adopting an innovative approach to the subject, this book will appeal to all those interested in how past societies regarded health, disease and healing and will improve knowledge of not only the practice of medicine in the past, but also of the ethical, religious and cultural dimensions structuring that practice.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |14 pages

Introduction: Wounds in the Middle Ages

ByAnne Kirkham, Cordelia Warr

part |2 pages

Part I A Medical Overview

chapter 1|23 pages

The Management of Military Wounds in the Middle Ages

ByJon Clasper

part |2 pages

Part II Miraculous Wounds and Miraculous Healing

chapter 2|20 pages

Changing Stigmata

chapter 3|25 pages

Miracle and Medicine: Conceptions of Medical Knowledge and Practice

part |2 pages

Part III The Broken Body and the Broken Soul

chapter 4|20 pages

The Solution of Continuous Things: Wounds in Late Medieval Medicine and Surgery

chapter 5|20 pages

Medicine for the Wounded Soul

part |2 pages

Part IV Wounds as Signifiers for Romance Man and Civil Man

chapter 6|20 pages

Christ’s Wounds and the Birth of Romance

chapter 7|22 pages

Wounding in the High Middle Ages: Law and Practice

part |2 pages

Part V Wound Surgery in the Fourteenth Century

chapter 8|22 pages

Medicines for Surgical Practice in Fourteenth-Century England

chapter 9|16 pages

The Medical Crossbow from Jan Yperman to Isaack Koedijck

part |2 pages

Part VI The Modern Imagination

chapter 10|32 pages

The Bright Side of the Knife: Dismemberment in Medieval Europe and the Modern Imagination

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