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Infirmity in Antiquity and the Middle Ages - Social and Cultural Approaches to Health, Weakness and Care (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Infirmity in Antiquity and the Middle Ages - Social and Cultural Approaches to Health, Weakness and Care (Hardcover, New Ed)
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This volume discusses infirmitas ('infirmity' or 'weakness') in
ancient and medieval societies. It concentrates on the cultural,
social and domestic aspects of physical and mental illness,
impairment and health, and also examines frailty as a more
abstract, cultural construct. It seeks to widen our understanding
of how physical and mental well-being and weakness were understood
and constructed in the longue duree from antiquity to the Middle
Ages. The chapters are written by experts from a variety of
disciplines, including archaeology, art history and philology, and
pay particular attention to the differences of experience due to
gender, age and social status. The book opens with chapters on the
more theoretical aspects of pre-modern infirmity and disability,
moving on to discuss different types of mental and cultural
infirmities, including those with positive connotations, such as
medieval stigmata. The last section of the book discusses infirmity
in everyday life from the perspective of healing, medicine and
care.
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