Materialities of Disease Across the Medieval World

Images, Objects, and Remains

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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This interdisciplinary volume offers new ways to think about how disease and death, and healing and health, were considered, experienced, displayed, and portrayed across the global medieval world. Reaching across conventional disciplinary, historiographical, and geographical boundaries, Materialities of Disease investigates a broad selection of visual and material artefacts emerging from across the globe—from Western Europe, Western Africa, and Anatolia, to Japan, India, China, and New Spain. This volume focuses on non-textual narratives about disease that can be read in historical images, objects, human remains, archaeological remains, architectural spaces, materia medica, and other surviving artefacts. Taken together, these contributions, which are diverse and interdisciplinary, highlight and nuance some of the recent critical advances in scholarship being made in and for medical history across many fields

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Utgivningsdatum2025-05-31
Mått152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt690 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCARMEN Visual and Material Cultures
Antal sidor356
FörlagArc Humanities Press
ISBN9781802701616

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsNotes on TransliterationIntroduction: "Tales of Medieval Disease in Three Acts—Images, Objects, and Remains," by Lori JonesChapter 1. "By Its Spots: Leprosy as Medieval Illness," by Courtney A. Krolikoski Chapter 2. "Colonialism as Illness: Images of Disease and Violence from Early Colonial Mexico," by Edward Anthony PolancoChapter 3. "Images of Death: Disease Representations in Sixteenth-Century New Spain," by Sandra Elena Guevara FloresChapter 4. "Mondino’s X: Visualizing the Abdominal Muscles in Manuscript and Print," by Allen Shotwell with Tawrin BakerChapter 5. "Corpses as Pathogenic Agents in Early Medieval Japan," by Andrew MacomberChapter 6. "Christ’s Pharmacy: Theriac and Drug Jars in the Medieval Iconography of Disease Management," by Winston BlackChapter 7. "Solomon’s Jinns and the Art of Healing: Talismanic Objects in the Therapeutic Landscapes of Medieval Anatolia," by Bihter EsenerChapter 8. "Snakes, Rashes, and Afflicted Bodies: Terracottas and Images of Disease in Medieval West Africa," by Gérard ChouinChapter 9. "From the Brahmanic to the Colonial: The Sojourn of a South Indian Goddess of Disease through the Axes of Pollution and Power," by Malavika BinnyChapter 10. "Mobilities and Value of materia medica in Chinese Medicine for Childbirth," by Margaret Wee-Siang NgChapter 11. "A Portrait of Disease in Medieval Portugal: The Contribution of Palaeopathology," by Francisca Alves-Cardoso and Inês BelémChapter 12. “'The Most Grevous Passioun': Dental Health and Disease in Late Medieval Britain," by Carole Rawcliffe