Overview

This interdisciplinary volume offers new ways to think about how disease and death, and healing and health, were considered, experienced, displayed, and portrayed across the global medieval world. Reaching across conventional disciplinary, historiographical, and geographical boundaries, Materialities of Disease investigates a broad selection of visual and material artefacts emerging from across the globe—from Western Europe, Western Africa, and Anatolia, to Japan, India, China, and New Spain.  This volume focuses on non-textual narratives about disease that can be read in historical images, objects, human remains, archaeological remains, architectural spaces, materia medica, and other surviving artefacts. Taken together, these contributions, which are diverse and interdisciplinary, highlight and nuance some of the recent critical advances in scholarship being made in and for medical history across many fields

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Author:   Lori Jones
Publisher:   Arc Humanities Press
Imprint:   Arc Humanities Press
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9781802701616

ISBN 10:   1802701613
Pages:   356
Publication Date:   31 May 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Transliteration Introduction: ""Tales of Medieval Disease in Three Acts—Images, Objects, and Remains,"" by Lori Jones Chapter 1. ""By Its Spots: Leprosy as Medieval Illness,"" by Courtney A. Krolikoski Chapter 2. ""Colonialism as Illness: Images of Disease and Violence from Early Colonial Mexico,"" by Edward Anthony Polanco Chapter 3. ""Images of Death: Disease Representations in Sixteenth-Century New Spain,"" by Sandra Guevara Flores Chapter 4. ""Mondino’s X: Visualizing the Abdominal Muscles in Manuscript and Print,"" by Allen Shotwell with Tawrin Baker Chapter 5. ""Corpses as Pathogenic Agents in Early Medieval Japan,"" by Andrew Macomber Chapter 6. ""Christ’s Pharmacy: Theriac and Drug Jars in the Medieval Iconography of Disease Management,"" by Winston Black Chapter 7. ""Solomon’s Jinns and the Art of Healing: Talismanic Objects in the Therapeutic Landscapes of Medieval Anatolia,"" by Bihter Esener Chapter 8. ""Snakes, Rashes, and Afflicted Bodies: Terracottas and Images of Disease in Medieval West Africa,"" by Gérard Chouin Chapter 9. ""From the Brahmanic to the Colonial: The Sojourn of a South Indian Goddess of Disease through the Axes of Pollution and Power,"" by Malavika Binny Chapter 10. ""Mobilities and Value of materia medica in Chinese Medicine for Childbirth,"" by Margaret Wee-Siang Ng Chapter 11. ""A Portrait of Disease in Medieval Portugal: The Contribution of Palaeopathology,"" by Francisca Alves-Cardoso and Inês Belém Chapter 12. “'The Most Grevous Passioun': Dental Health and Disease in Late Medieval Britain,"" by Carole Rawcliffe

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Lori Jones is an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa, as well as an independent historian of medieval and early modern disease and medicine. She is the author of Patterns of Plague (2022) and editor of two volumes on pre-modern disease.

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