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'... The work is documented with footnotes and end-of-chapter reference sources ... primary sources have been cited and used throughout, making this a useful work for those conducting studies on societal culture in the Middle Ages. Recommended. Medieval history library collections, graduate students and above.' Choice '... will provide stimulating reading for historians interested in medicine, surgery, the body, and religious materiality.' Medieval Review 'The editors should be applauded for including articles on a very broad range of topics related to wounds... all readers of Medical History will find chapters that educate and enlighten them.' Medical History

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Dr Anne Kirkham is a research associate at the University of Manchester. She obtained her PhD in 2007 and has published an article on St Francis of Assisi in Revival and Resurgence in Christian History (Studies in Church History, vol. 44, 2008). Since 2008, she has taught in the department of Art History and Visual Studies and researched, with Cordelia Warr, medieval wounds and has also co-supervised medical students researching dissertations in the history of medieval medicine. Dr Cordelia Warr is senior lecturer in Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Manchester. She has published on Dressing for Heaven (2010), has co-edited two books on art in Naples with Janis Elliot (The Church of Santa Maria Donna Regina, 2004, and Art and Architecture in Naples, 1266-1714, 2010), and is currently working on the representation of stigmata between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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