Religion and Medicine in the Middle Ages
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folk medicine
Medicine and religion
medieval culture
medieval healthcare practices
religious beliefs
specific instances
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- ISBN 9781903153079
- Weight: 1g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 10 Sep 2001
- Publisher: York Medieval Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Medicine and religion were intertwined in the middle ages; here are studies of specific instances.
The sheer extent of crossover - medics as religious men, religious men as medics, medical language at the service of preaching and moral-theological language deployed in medical writings - is the driving force behind these studies. The book reflects the extraordinary advances which 'pure' history of medicine has made in the last twenty years: there is medicine at the levels of midwife and village practitioner, the sweep of the learned Greek and Latin tradition of over a millennium; there is control of midwifery by the priest, therapy through liturgy, medicine as an expression of religious life for heretics, medicine invading theologians' discussion of earthly paradise; and so on.
Professor PETER BILLER is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of York; Dr JOSEPH ZIEGLER teaches in the Department of History at the University of Haifa.Contributors JOSEPH ZIEGLER, PEREGRINE HORDEN, KATHRYNTAGLIA, JESSALYN BIRD, PETER BILLER, DANIELLE JACQUART, MICHAEL McVAUGH, MAAIKE VAN DER LUGT, WILLIAM COURTENAY, VIVIAN NUTTON.
PETE BILLER is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of York. PETE BILLER is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of York.
