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Darrera modificació: 2025-10-16
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Jones, Lori (ed.), Materialities of Disease Across the Medieval World: Images, Objects, and Remains, Leeds, Arc Humanities Press (CARMEN Visual and Material Cultures), 2025, 356 pp.
- Resum
- 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.
Conté:
* Jones, Lori / Introduction: Tales of Medieval Disease in Three Acts—Images, Objects, and Remains
Chapter 1. Krolikoski, Courtney A. / By Its Spots: Leprosy as Medieval Illness
Chapter 2. Polanco, Edward Anthony / Colonialism as Illness: Images of Disease and Violence from Early Colonial Mexico
Chapter 3. Guevara Flores, Sandra Elena / Images of Death: Disease Representations in Sixteenth-Century New Spain
Chapter 4. Shotwell, Allen - Tawrin Baker, Tawrin / Mondino's X: Visualizing the Abdominal Muscles in Manuscript and Print
Chapter 5. Macomber, Andrew / Corpses as Pathogenic Agents in Early Medieval Japan
Chapter 6. Black, Winston / Christ's Pharmacy: Theriac and Drug Jars in the Medieval Iconography of Disease Management
Chapter 7. Esener, Bihter / Solomon's Jinns and the Art of Healing: Talismanic Objects in the Therapeutic Landscapes of Medieval Anatolia
Chapter 8. Chouin, Gérard / Snakes, Rashes, and Afflicted Bodies: Terracottas and Images of Disease in Medieval West Africa
Chapter 9. Binny, Malavika / From the Brahmanic to the Colonial: The Sojourn of a South Indian Goddess of Disease through the Axes of Pollution and Power
Chapter 10. Wee-Siang Ng, Margaret / Mobilities and Value of materia medica in Chinese Medicine for Childbirth
Chapter 11. Alves-Cardoso, Francisca - Belém, Inês / A Portrait of Disease in Medieval Portugal: The Contribution of Palaeopathology
Chapter 12. Rawcliffe, Carole / 'The Most Grevous Passioun': Dental Health and Disease in Late Medieval Britain
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Medicina - Farmacologia
Medicina - Pesta i altres malalties
Història de l'art
Màgia - Màgia mèdica i protectora
- Notes
- Informació de l'editor
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