Bodies of Knowledge: Cultural Interpretations of Illness and Medicine in Medieval Europe (Paperback)

Six papers which reassess medieval medicine. Contents: Rage Possession: A Cognitive Science Approach to Early English Demon Possession (Kirsten C. Uszkalo); Outlawry and Moral Perversion in Old Norse Society (Anne Irene Riis); Hermaphroditism in the western Middle Ages: Physicians, Lawyers and the Intersexed Person (Irina Metzler); The nadir of Western Medicine? Texts, contexts and practice in Anglo-Saxon England (Sally Crawford); This should not to be shown to a gentile: MedicoMagical Texts in Medieval Franco-German Jewish Rabbinic Manuscripts (Ephraim Shoham-Steiner); Asclepius, Biographical Dictionaries, and the transmission of science in the Medieval Muslim World (Keren Abbou Hershkovits).

General

Imprint:	Bar Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	British Archaeological Reports International Series
Release date:	December 2010
First published:	December 2010
Editors:	Sally Crawford • Christina Lee
Dimensions:	297 x 210 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	80
ISBN-13:	978-1-4073-0714-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > General
LSN:	1-4073-0714-2
Barcode:	9781407307145

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