Infirmity in antiquity and the middle ages : social and cultural approaches to health, weakness and care / edited by Christian Krötzl, University of Tampere, Finland, Katariina Mustakallio, University of Tampere, Finland and Jenni Kuuliala, University of Bremen, Germany.
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Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT :
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2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- Introduction: infirmitas in antiquity and the middle ages / Christian Krötzl, Katariina Mustakallio and Jenni Kuuliala
- I defining infirmity and disability
- Age, agency and disability : suetonius and the emperors of the first century ce / Mary Harlow & Ray Laurence
- Infirmitas or not? : short-statured persons in ancient Greece / Véronique Dasen
- Performing dis/ability? : constructions of "infirmity" in late medieval and early modern life writing / Bianca Frohne
- Nobility, community and physical impairment in later medieval canonization processes / Jenni Kuuliala
- Towards a glossary of melancholy, depression and psychological distress in ancient Roman culture / Donatella Puliga
- Societal and cultural infirmitas
- The crusader's stigmata : true crusading and the wounds of Christ in the crusade ideology of the thirteenth century / Miikka Tamminen
- Illness, self-inflicted body pain and supernatural stigmata : three ways of identification with the suffering body of Christ / Gábor Klaniczay
- Imagery of disease, poison and healing in the late fourteenth-century polemics against Waldensian heresy / Reima Välimäki
- Infirmitas romana and its cure : Livy's history therapy in the ab urbe condita / Katariina Mustakallio & Elina Pyy
- Infirmity, healing and community
- From Mithridatium to potio sancti Pauli : the idea of a medicine from antiquity to the middle ages / Svetlana Hautala
- Alternative medicine in pre-Roman and Republican Italy : sacred springs, curative baths and "votive religion" / Alison Griffith
- Bathing the infirm: water basins in Roman iconography and household contexts / Ria Berg
- Sexual incapacity in medieval materia medica / Susanna Niiranen
- Miracles and the body social : infirmi in the middle Dutch miracle collection of Our Lady of Amersfoort / Jonas Van Mulder
- Saints, healing and communities in the later middle ages : on roles and perceptions / Christian Krötzl
- Bibliography
- Index.