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Medical historians are already familiar with medieval southern Italy through research into its famed medical school at Salerno. This volume takes a broader view of healthcare, seeking to illuminate the experience of sickness, attitudes towards the ill and infirm and the provision of care up to the twelfth century. Combining information from hagiography and chronicles with less well-known charters and archaeology, it deals with the provision of food, the environment, women's health, individual and collective disease and varieties of cure. A final chapter assesses the interaction between intellectual and practical medicine, as well as re-examining the early life of the medical school at Salerno. The book's importance lies in its wide-ranging approach and detailed analysis, which will appeal to historians of medicine and medieval culture alike.

Medicine, Medieval --- Diseases --- Médecine médiévale --- Maladies --- History. --- History --- Histoire --- History of Medicine, Medieval --- Social Conditions --- Attitude to Health. --- history --- Médecine médiévale --- Medicine, Medieval - Italy, Southern - History. --- Diseases - Italy, Southern - History. --- History of Medicine, Medieval - Italy. --- Social Conditions - history - Italy. --- Medieval medicine --- Human beings --- Illness --- Illnesses --- Morbidity --- Sickness --- Sicknesses --- Medicine --- Epidemiology --- Health --- Pathology --- Sick

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Vrouwen in de middeleeuwen. Als je al van de 'donkere' middeleeuwen kan spreken, geldt dit zeker voor vrouwen en nog meer voor de geschiedschrijving over vrouwen. Deze publicatie wil wat meer licht laten schijnen over deze toch wel turbulente Italiaanse middeleeuwen. In de hier beschreven periode is Italië een politiek en sociaal lappendeken. Dit is een belangrijk gegeven bij het bestuderen van de status van vrouwen. Voor de historici betekent dit niet alleen een geografische verspreiding van hun bronnen, maar ook een verschil in aanbod van documentatie, zo is de situatie van vrouwen in het zuiden van Italië minder goed gedocumenteerd dan deze van vrouwen in het noorden van het land. De auteur van dit boek stelt dat niet alleen sekse maar ook sociale klasse, religie en etnische afkomst mee in overweging moeten genomen worden bij het bestuderen van vrouwengeschiedenis.

Women --- Families --- Femmes --- Familles --- History --- Histoire --- Italy --- Italie --- Social life and customs. --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Law --- Christian religion --- Law of real property --- Politics --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- anno 500-1499 --- Family --- Catholic Church --- Power --- Monarchies --- Legislation --- Book --- Property rights

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This book is open access under a CC-BY 4.0 license. This book examines social and medical responses to the disfigured face in early medieval Europe, arguing that the study of head and facial injuries can offer a new contribution to the history of early medieval medicine and culture, as well as exploring the language of violence and social interactions. Despite the prevalence of warfare and conflict in early medieval society, and a veritable industry of medieval historians studying it, there has in fact been very little attention paid to the subject of head wounds and facial damage in the course of war and/or punitive justice. The impact of acquired disfigurement —for the individual, and for her or his family and community—is barely registered, and only recently has there been any attempt to explore the question of how damaged tissue and bone might be treated medically or surgically. In the wake of new work on disability and the emotions in the medieval period, this study documents how acquired disfigurement is recorded across different geographical and chronological contexts in the period. .

Disfigured persons --- Face --- Head --- History --- Social conditions --- Wounds and injuries --- Medieval philosophy. --- Medieval Literature. --- Medieval Philosophy. --- History of Medieval Europe. --- History—476-1492. --- Literature. --- Europe --- Literature, Medieval. --- European literature --- Medieval literature --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Medieval philosophy --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Scholasticism --- Philosophy, medieval. --- Europe-History-476-1492. --- Europe—History—476-1492. --- Philosophy, Medieval. --- Medieval Literature --- Medieval Philosophy --- History of Medieval Europe --- Disfigurement --- Gender --- Medicine and health --- Violence --- Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval --- European history: medieval period, middle ages

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The violence of the Middle Ages (and its social regulation) has already attracted the attention of historians, giving rise to something of an industry in studying this theme. Head and facial trauma, arguably, were the most serious of injuries in early medieval society due to their very visibility. Wounds in this area, and their scars, were often closely scrutinized and commented upon by contemporaries, who seem to have had a clear sense of their potential for shame and dishonor. Such scrutiny was, however, only applied to acquired injuries and was not connected with the ancient pseudo-science of physiognomy, which concerned itself with deducing character from facial and other physical features and would enjoy some popularity later in the Middle Ages in the West. Injury to the head might also often result in injury to the brain, offering a further perspective on wounds, their care, and their aftermath.

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