Materialities of Disease Across the Medieval World

Lori Jones is an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa, as well as an independent historian of medieval and early modern disease and medicine. She is the author of Patterns of Plague (2022) and editor of two volumes on pre-modern disease.

• 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