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Infirmity in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

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Infirmity in Antiquity and the Middle Ages book

Social and Cultural Approaches to Health, Weakness and Care

Infirmity in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

DOI link for Infirmity in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Infirmity in Antiquity and the Middle Ages book

Social and Cultural Approaches to Health, Weakness and Care
Edited ByChristian Krötzl, Katariina Mustakallio, Jenni Kuuliala
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2016
eBook Published 9 March 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315588469
Pages 334 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315588469
SubjectsHumanities
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Krötzl, C. (Ed.), Mustakallio, K. (Ed.), Kuuliala, J. (Ed.). (2016). Infirmity in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315588469

This volume discusses infirmitas (’infirmity’ or ’weakness’) in ancient and medieval societies. It concentrates on the cultural, social and domestic aspects of physical and mental illness, impairment and health, and also examines frailty as a more abstract, cultural construct. It seeks to widen our understanding of how physical and mental well-being and weakness were understood and constructed in the longue durée from antiquity to the Middle Ages. The chapters are written by experts from a variety of disciplines, including archaeology, art history and philology, and pay particular attention to the differences of experience due to gender, age and social status. The book opens with chapters on the more theoretical aspects of pre-modern infirmity and disability, moving on to discuss different types of mental and cultural infirmities, including those with positive connotations, such as medieval stigmata. The last section of the book discusses infirmity in everyday life from the perspective of healing, medicine and care.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |12 pages

Introduction: Infirmitas in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

ByJenni Kuuliala, Katariina Mustakallio, Christian Krötzl

part |2 pages

PART I Defining Infirmity and Disability

chapter 1|14 pages

Age, Agency and Disability: Suetonius and the Emperors of the First Century CE

chapter 2|22 pages

Infirmitas or Not? Short-statured Persons in Ancient Greece

ByVéronique Dasen

chapter 3|16 pages

Performing Dis/ability? Constructions of ‘Infirmity’ in Late Medieval and Early Modern Life Writing

chapter 4|16 pages

Nobility, Community and Physical Impairment in Later Medieval Canonization Processes

chapter 5|18 pages

Towards a Glossary of Depression and Psychological Distress in Ancient Roman Culture

part |2 pages

PART II Societal and Cultural Infirmitas

chapter 6|16 pages

The Crusader’s Stigmata: True Crusading and the Wounds of Christ in the Crusade Ideology of the Thirteenth Century

chapter 7|18 pages

Illness, Self-inflicted Body Pain and Supernatural Stigmata: Three Ways of Identification with the Suffering Body of Christ

chapter 8|16 pages

Imagery of Disease, Poison and Healing in the Late Fourteenth- century Polemics against Waldensian Heresy

chapter 9|16 pages

Infirmitas Romana and its Cure – Livy’s History Therapy in the Ab urbe condita

part |2 pages

PART III Infirmity, Healing and Community

chapter 10|14 pages

From Mithridatium to Potio Sancti Pauli: The Idea of a Medicine from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

chapter 11|16 pages

Alternative Medicine in Pre-Roman and Republican Italy: Sacred Springs, Curative Baths and ‘Votive Religion’

chapter 12|22 pages

Bathing the Infirm: Water Basins in Roman Iconography and Household Contexts

chapter 13|18 pages

Sexual Incapacity in Medieval Materia Medica

BySusanna Niiranen

chapter 14|14 pages

Miracles and the Body Social: Infirmi in the Middle Dutch Miracle Collection of Our Lady of Amersfoort

chapter 15|10 pages

Saints, Healing and Communities in the Later Middle Ages: On Roles and Perceptions

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