- 352 pages
- English
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Hospitals and Healing from Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages
About this book
The first part of this collection brings together a selection of Peregrine Horden's papers on the history of hospitals and related institutions of welfare provision from their origins in Late Antiquity to their medieval flourishing in Byzantium and the Islamic lands as well as in western Europe. The hospital is seen in a variety of original contexts, from demography and family history to the history of music and the liturgy. The second part turns to the history of healing and medicine, outside the hospital as well as within it. These studies cover a period from Hippocratic times to the Renaissance, but with a particular focus on the Mediterranean region - Byzantine, Middle Eastern and Western - in the Middle Ages.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Publisher’s Note
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- I How medicalised were Byzantine hospitals?
- II The confraternities of Byzantium
- III Ritual and public health in the early medieval city
- IV Religion as medicine: music in medieval hospitals
- V A non-natural environment: medicine without doctors and the medieval European hospital
- VI Family history and hospital history in the Middle Ages
- VII A discipline of relevance: the historiography of the later medieval hospital
- VIII Pain in Hippocratic medicine
- IX Travel sickness: medicine and mobility in the Mediterranean from antiquity to the Renaissance
- X The death of ascetics: sickness and monasticism in the early Byzantine Middle East
- XI Saints and doctors in the early Byzantine empire: the case of Theodore of Sykeon
- XII Responses to possession and insanity in the earlier Byzantine world
- XIII Disease, dragons and saints: the management of epidemics in the Dark Ages
- XIV Mediterranean plague in the age of Justinian
- XV The millennium bug: health and medicine around the year 1000
- XVI Continuity and discontinuity in the history of Mediterranean music therapy
- Addenda
- Index