Medieval Medicine And The Plague
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Author | : Lynne Elliott |
Publisher | : Crabtree Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780778713586 |
Learn the history of medieval disease and how medical treatments were worse than the disease.
Author | : Fiona Macdonald |
Publisher | : Gareth Stevens |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780836858983 |
Describes the illnesses, plagues, diagnoses, and treatments during the Middle Ages.
Author | : John Aberth |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 499 |
Release | : 2021-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 144222391X |
The Black Death of the late Middle Ages is often described as the greatest natural disaster in the history of humankind. More than fifty million people, half of Europe’s population, died during the first outbreak alone from 1347 to 1353. Plague then returned fifteen more times through to the end of the medieval period in 1500, posing the greatest challenge to physicians ever recorded in the history of the medical profession. This engrossing book provides the only comprehensive history of the medical response to the Black Death over time. Leading historian John Aberth has translated many unknown plague treatises from nine different languages that vividly illustrate the human dimensions of the horrific scourge. He includes doctors’ remarkable personal anecdotes, showing how their battles to combat the disease (which often afflicted them personally) and the scale and scope of the plague led many to question ancient authorities. Dispelling many myths and misconceptions about medicine during the Middle Ages, Aberth shows that plague doctors formulated a unique and far-reaching response as they began to treat plague as a poison, a conception that had far-reaching implications, both in terms of medical treatment and social and cultural responses to the disease in society as a whole.
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 | : Christos Lynteris |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2021-07-29 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3030723046 |
This edited collection brings together new research by world-leading historians and anthropologists to examine the interaction between images of plague in different temporal and spatial contexts, and the imagination of the disease from the Middle Ages to today. The chapters in this book illuminate to what extent the image of plague has not simply reflected, but also impacted the way in which the disease is experienced in different historical periods. The book asks what is the contribution of the entanglement between epidemic image and imagination to the persistence of plague as a category of human suffering across so many centuries, in spite of profound shifts in our medical understanding of the disease. What is it that makes plague such a visually charismatic subject? And why is the medical, religious and lay imagination of plague so consistently determined by the visual register? In answering these questions, this volume takes the study of plague images beyond its usual, art-historical framework, so as to examine them and their relation to the imagination of plague from medical, historical, visual anthropological, and postcolonial perspectives.
Author | : Luis García Ballester |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780521431019 |
Essays on the practical aspects of medieval European medicine.
Author | : Michael Rogers McVaugh |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2002-07-11 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780521524544 |
An account of the medical world in eastern Spain in the decades before the Black Death.
Author | : Robert S. Gottfried |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2010-05-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439118469 |
A fascinating work of detective history, The Black Death traces the causes and far-reaching consequences of this infamous outbreak of plague that spread across the continent of Europe from 1347 to 1351. Drawing on sources as diverse as monastic manuscripts and dendrochronological studies (which measure growth rings in trees), historian Robert S. Gottfried demonstrates how a bacillus transmitted by rat fleas brought on an ecological reign of terror -- killing one European in three, wiping out entire villages and towns, and rocking the foundation of medieval society and civilization.
Author | : Nancy G. Siraisi |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2009-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226761312 |
Western Europe supported a highly developed and diverse medical community in the late medieval and early Renaissance periods. In her absorbing history of this complex era in medicine, Siraisi explores the inner workings of the medical community and illustrates the connections of medicine to both natural philosophy and technical skills.
Author | : Cohn Jr. |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2011-03-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191615889 |
Cultures of Plague opens a new chapter in the history of medicine. Neither the plague nor the ideas it stimulated were static, fixed in a timeless Galenic vacuum over five centuries, as historians and scientists commonly assume. As plague evolved in its pathology, modes of transmission, and the social characteristics of its victims, so too did medical thinking about plague develop. This study of plague imprints from academic medical treatises to plague poetry highlights the most feared and devastating epidemic of the sixteenth-century, one that threatened Italy top to toe from 1575 to 1578 and unleashed an avalanche of plague writing. From erudite definitions, remote causes, cures and recipes, physicians now directed their plague writings to the prince and discovered their most 'valiant remedies' in public health: strict segregation of the healthy and ill, cleaning streets and latrines, addressing the long-term causes of plague-poverty. Those outside the medical profession joined the chorus. In the heartland of Counter-Reformation Italy, physicians along with those outside the profession questioned the foundations of Galenic and Renaissance medicine, even the role of God. Assaults on medieval and Renaissance medicine did not need to await the Protestant-Paracelsian alliance of seventeenth-century in northern Europe. Instead, creative forces planted by the pandemic of 1575-8 sowed seeds of doubt and unveiled new concerns and ideas within that supposedly most conservative form of medical writing, the plague tract. Relying on health board statistics and dramatized with eyewitness descriptions of bizarre happenings, human misery, and suffering, these writers created the structure for plague classics of the eighteenth century, and by tracking the contagion's complex and crooked paths, they anticipated trends of nineteenth-century epidemiology.