Wounds in the Middle Ages

Name: Wounds in the Middle Ages
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781409465690
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By Anne Kirkham and Cordelia Warr

Series: The History of Medicine in Context

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Wounds in the Middle Ages examines how wounds were more than physical injuries; they bore deep cultural, religious, and social significance across medieval Europe. The book begins with a historical overview of medical wound treatment and then pairs chapters on themes such as religious beliefs, medical writing, social status, and surgical practices. A concluding chapter explores how medieval wounds have been viewed in modern imagination. This innovative study deepens understanding of past medical practices alongside their ethical and cultural contexts.
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This book is an excellent fit for historians, medical scholars, and those fascinated by medieval culture, health, and healing. It suits advanced students and researchers seeking detailed exploration of the ethical, religious, and cultural dimensions of medieval wound treatment.

This book focuses on the representation, perception and treatment of wounds in the Middle Ages. Contributors situate wounds within the context of religious belief before turning to theory, symbolism, and more grounded spheres involving the law and the battlefield. Adopting an innovative approach to the subject.

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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, Wounds in the Middle Ages 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.

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Praised for thorough documentation with primary sources, this volume is recommended for medieval history collections and graduate students (Choice). The Medieval Review highlights that it offers stimulating reading for historians interested in medicine, surgery and religious materiality. Medical History applauds the broad range of topics covered, noting that it educates and enlightens all readers focused on medical history.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781409465690

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 13 May 2014

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Contributors:

Edited by Anne Kirkham
Edited by Cordelia Warr

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 635g

Pages: 270

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Anne Kirkham Cordelia Warr Education & Reference History & Archaeology History & Military Military History Non-Fiction Series: The History of Medicine in Context

About the Author

Dr Anne Kirkham is a research associate at the University of Manchester. She obtained her PhD in 2007 and has published an article on St Francis of Assisi in Revival and Resurgence in Christian History (Studies in Church History, vol. 44, 2008). Since 2008, she has taught in the department of Art History and Visual Studies and researched, with Cordelia Warr, medieval wounds and has also co-supervised medical students researching dissertations in the history of medieval medicine. Dr Cordelia Warr is senior lecturer in Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Manchester. She has published on Dressing for Heaven (2010), has co-edited two books on art in Naples with Janis Elliot (The Church of Santa Maria Donna Regina, 2004, and Art and Architecture in Naples, 1266-1714, 2010), and is currently working on the representation of stigmata between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries. Anne Kirkham, Cordelia Warr, Jon Clasper, Louise Elizabeth Wilson, Karine van't Land, M.K.K. Yearl, Hannah Priest, Jenny Benham, Ian Naylor, Maria Patijn, Lila Yawn

Wounds in the Middle Ages