Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World (EPDF) von Lori Jones

This collection highlights and nuances some of the recent critical advances in scholarship on death and disease, from different religious traditions.

Intersections: Disease and Death, Medicine and Religion, Medieval and Early Modern
LORI JONES, NÜKHET VARLIK AND WINSTON BLACK

PART I: DIAGNOSING, EXPLAINING AND RECORDING
1 Knowing the Signs of Disease: Plague in the Arabic Medical Commentaries between the First and Second Pandemics
NAHYAN FANCY
2 The Legal Foundations of Post-Mortem Diagnosis in Later Medieval Milan
ANN G. CARMICHAEL
3 Epidemic Illness in the Last Book of Giovanni Villani'sNew Chronicle, 1345-1348: Warfare, Sin and the Heavens
NICOLE ARCHAMBEAU
4 Colours of Disease and Death in the Early Modern Ottoman Cultural Imagination
NÜKHET VARLIK

PART II: COPING, PREVENTING AND HEALING
5 The Role of Music in a Franciscan Liturgy for the End of Life, as Evidenced in Manuscript Newberry 24
ELAINE STRATTON HILD
6 Medical and Spiritual Healing of Death and Disease in Medieval Miracle Stories
JENNIFER C. EDWARDS
7 Infirmity and Death-Wishes in Medieval French and Italian Canonisation Processes
JENNI KUULIALA
8 Bubo Men? Repurposing Medieval Anatomic Illustrations for Plague Therapy in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
LORI JONES
9 Psalm 38 as Plague Diagnostic and Prophylactic in Abraham Yagel'sMoshi'ah Ḥosim (1587)
ANDREW BERNS
10 The Protection of Innocents: Red Coral as a Lapidary Cure for the 'Children's Disease' and Conditions Related to Childbirth in Medieval and Early Modern England
NICHOLA E. HARRIS

PART III: STUDYING, ANALYSING AND INTERPRETING
11 Leprosy in Medieval Europe: An Immunological and Syndemic Approach
FABIAN CRESPO
12 Past Plagues: On the Synergies of Genetic and Historical Interpretations of Infectious Disease
HENDRIK POINAR

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