Healthcare In Early Medieval Northern Italy
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Author | : Clare Pilsworth |
Publisher | : Brepols Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Italy, Northern |
ISBN | : 9782503528557 |
After the fall of the last Western Roman Emperor in 476 AD, Northern Italy played a crucial role - both geographically and culturally - in connecting East to West and North to South. Nowhere is this revealed more clearly than in the knowledge and practice of medicine. In sixth-century Ravenna, Greek medical texts were translated into Latin, and medical practitioners such as Anthimus, famous for his work on diet, also travelled from East to West. Despite Northern Italy's location as a confluence of cultures and values, modern scholarship has thus far ignored the extensive range of medical practices in existence throughout this region. This book aims to rectify this absence. It will draw upon both archaeological and written sources to argue for redefinitions of health and illness in relation to the Northern-Italian Middle Ages. This volume does not only put forward new classifications of illness and understandings of diet, but it also demonstrates the centrality of medicine to everyday life in Northern Italy. Using charter evidence and literary sources, the author expands our understanding of the literacy levels and social circles of the elite medical practitioners, the medici, and their lesser counterparts. This work marks a significant intervention into the field of medical studies in the early to high Middle Ages.
Author | : Patricia Skinner |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2022-02-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 900447630X |
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.
Author | : Sally Mayall Brasher |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 119 |
Release | : 2017-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526119307 |
This is the first book in English to provide a comprehensive examination of the hospital movement that arose and prospered in northern Italy between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries. Throughout this flourishing urbanised area hundreds of independent semi-religious facilities appeared, offering care for the ill, the poor and pilgrims en route to holy sites in Rome and the eastern Mediterranean. Over three centuries they became mechanisms for the appropriation of civic authority and political influence in the communities they served, and created innovative experiments in healthcare and poor relief which are the precursors to modern social welfare systems. Will appeal to students and lecturers in medieval, social, religious, and urban history and includes a detailed appendix that will assist researchers in the field.
Author | : Loren Carey MacKinney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Caroline Goodson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2021-03-25 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 1108489117 |
Demonstrates how food-growing gardens in early medieval cities transformed Roman ideas and economic structures into new, medieval values.
Author | : Claire Burridge |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2024-07-15 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9004466177 |
Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice explores the practicality and applicability of the medical recipes recorded in early medieval manuscripts. It takes an original, dual approach to these overlooked and understudied texts by not only analysing their practical usability, but by also re-evaluating these writings in the light of osteological evidence. Could those individuals with access to the manuscripts have used them in the context of therapy? And would they have wanted to do so? In asking these questions, this book unpacks longstanding assumptions about the intended purposes of medical texts, offering a new perspective on the relationship between medical knowledge and practice.
Author | : Tiffany A. Ziegler |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2018-10-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3030020568 |
Medieval Healthcare and the Rise of Charitable Institutions: The History of the Municipal Hospital examines the development of medieval institutions of care, beginning with a survey of the earliest known hospitals in ancient times to the classical period, to the early Middle Ages, and finally to the explosion of hospitals in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. For Western Christian medieval societies, institutional charity was a necessity set forth by the religion’s dictums—care for the needy and sick was a tenant of the faith, leading to a unique partnership between Christianity and institutional care that would expand into the fledging hospitals of the early Modern period. In this study, the hospital of Saint John in Brussels serves as an example of the developments. The institution followed the pattern of the establishment of medieval charitable institutions in the high Middle Ages, but diverged to become an archetype for later Christian hospitals.
Author | : James Joseph Walsh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
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Author | : Nicola Barber |
Publisher | : Capstone Classroom |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1410946495 |
Examines beliefs and practices, public health, and plague in the medieval world.
Author | : Sheila Campbell |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 1992-03-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1349218820 |
This volume of studies seeks an anthropological view of medicine and the healing arts as they were situated within the lives of medieval people. Miracle cures and charms as well as drugs and surgery fall within the scope of the authors represented here, as does advice about diet and regimen. As well, the volume looks at wellness and illness in broad contexts, avoiding the tendency of modern medicine to focus on the isolation and definition of pathological states.