Wounds and Wound Repair in Medieval Culture Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : BRILL
• File Size : 41,7 Mb
• Release Date : 05 October 2015

This volume brings together essays that consider wounding and/or wound repair from a wide range of sources and disciplines including arms and armaments, military history, medical history, literature, art

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 51,7 Mb
• Release Date : 11 February 2016

Wounds were a potent signifier reaching across all aspects of life in Europe in the middle ages, and their representation, perception and treatment is the focus of this volume. Following

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 20,8 Mb
• Release Date : 02 June 2024

The spectacle of the wounded body figured prominently in the Middle Ages, from images of Christ?s wounds on the cross, to the ripped and torn bodies of tortured saints

• Publisher : Rutgers University Press
• File Size : 33,9 Mb
• Release Date : 06 July 2018

Cultures of War in Graphic Novels examines the representation of small-scale and often less acknowledged conflicts from around the world and throughout history. The contributors look at an array of

• Publisher : BRILL
• File Size : 40,6 Mb
• Release Date : 12 June 2018

The edited volume, Trauma in Medieval Society, draws upon skeletal and archival evidence to build a picture of trauma as part of the literary and historical lives of individuals and

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 01 September 2020

The Routledge Companion to Cultural History in the Western World is a comprehensive examination of recent discussions and findings in the exciting field of cultural history. A synthesis of how

• Publisher : DS Brewer
• File Size : 54,8 Mb
• Release Date : 02 June 2024

Essays exploring medieval castration, as reflected in archaeology, law, historical record, and literary motifs. Castration and castrati have always been facets of western culture, from myth and legend to law

• Publisher : BRILL
• File Size : 21,8 Mb
• Release Date : 22 February 2022

Kids Those Days is a collection of interdisciplinary research into medieval childhood. Contributors investigate abandonment and abuse, fosterage and guardianship, criminal behavior and child-rearing, child bishops and sainthood, disabilities and

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 31,5 Mb
• Release Date : 06 February 2020

Francis of Assisi's reported reception of the stigmata on Mount La Verna in 1224 is almost universally considered to be the first documented account of an individual miraculously and physically receiving

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 28,8 Mb
• Release Date : 15 September 2016

This book considers how scientists, theologians, priests, and poets approached the relationship of the human body and ethics in the later Middle Ages. Is medicine merely a metaphor for sin?