Health and Medicine in Early Medieval Southern Italy
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-examini…
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- ISBN: 978-90-04-10394-8
- EAN: 9789004103948
- Produktnummer: 1493553
- Verlag: Brill Academic Pub
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
- Seitenangabe: 186 S.
- Masse: H24.7 cm x B16.6 cm x D1.8 cm 522 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 11
- Gewicht: 522
Über den Autor
Patricia Skinner, Ph.D. (1990) in Medieval History, University of Birmingham, is Lecturer in Humanities at the University of Southampton. Her thesis was published as Family Power in Southern Italy (CUP, 1995), and she has published several articles on the social history of the region.
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