Bodily and Spiritual Hygiene in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

Explorations of Textual Presentations of Filth and Water

Albrecht Classen

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9783110523386
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Modern History
• Index: History

While most people today take hygiene and medicine for granted, they both have had their own history. We can gain deep insights into the pre-modern world by studying its health-care system, its approaches to medicine, and concept of hygiene. Already the early Middle Ages witnessed great interest in bathing (hot and cold), swimming, and good personal hygiene. Medical activities grew over time, but even early medieval monks were already great experts in treating the sick. The contributions examine literary, medical, historical texts and images and probe the information we can glean from them. The interdisciplinary approach of this volume makes it possible to view this large field in a complex and diversified manner, taking into account both early medieval and early modern treatises on medicine, water, bathing, and health. Such a cultural-historical perspective creates a most valuable bridge connecting literary and scientific documents under the umbrella of the history of mentality and history of everyday life. The volume does not aim at idealizing the past, but it definitely intends to deconstruct modern myths about the 'dirty' and 'unhealthy' Middle Ages and early modern age.

Index

• A
• Aachen 1, 2
• Abano 1, 2, 3
• About the Preservation of Health 1, 2
• Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī 1 abus de droit 2
• Adam of Balsham 1
• Adam of Waldstein the Younger 1
• Adelard of Bath 1, 2
• Adelard of Corbie 1
• Advent Lyrics 1
• Ælfric (Aelfric) 1, 2
• Aelred of Rievaulx 1, 2
• Aesculapius 1
• Aesop 1
• Agnus Castus 1
• Agricola, Georgius 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
• Agrippa 1
• AIDS 1, 2
• Albich of Uničov 1
• Albrecht von Borgunnien 1
• Albucasis 1
• alchemy 1
• Alexander III, Pope 1, 2
• Alexander of Thalles 1
• Alfred, King 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Alfred the Great 1, 2
• al-Mansur 1
• alternative medicine 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• Ambrose 1, 2, 3
• anaphrodisiac 1
• Anaxagoras 1
• Anaximenes 1
• András II, King 1
• Angers 1
• Angevins 1
• Anglicus, Gilbertus 1, 2, 3
• Anna Katharina of Harling 1
• Anna of the Palatinate 1
• Anne, Queen 1
• Anselm, St. 1
• antelope 1
• Anthony, St. 1
• anthrax 1
• Antoine de La Salle 1
• Antonius Musa 1, 2
• Antony, St. 1
• The Awntyrs off Arthur at the Terne Wathelyne 1, 2, 3, 4
• apothecary 1, 2
• Apuleius 1
• Aristides 1, 2
• Aristides, Aelius 1
• Aristotle 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
• Armauer Hansen, Gerhard Henrik 1
• ars praedicandi 1, 2
• Arzneibuch 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
• Asclepiades of Bithynia 1
• Asclepius 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
• assize of nuisance 1, 2, 3, 4
• Athanasius of Alexandria 1
• Augustine, St. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
• Avicenna 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
• B
• bad breath 1
• Bad Ems 1
• Baden 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• Bagdad 1
• Balbín, Bohuslav 1, 2, 3
• Bald 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
• balneological treatises 1
• balneologists 1
• balneology 1, 2
• balneotherapy 1
• Barcelona 1
• bark 1
• Bartolomeo da Montagnana 1
• Basilissa 1
• Basler Rezepte 1
• bathhouses 1
• bathing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32
• bathrooms 1, 2, 3, 4
• baths 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
• Bathsheba 1
• Battle Abbey 1
• The Battle of Brunanburh, Wulf and Eadwacer 1, 2
• The Battle of Maldon 1
• Beaune 1
• Becket, Thomas 1
• bedding 1
• Bede 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• beer 1, 2
• Benedict of Aniane 1, 2, 3
• Benedict, St. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Beowulf 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
• Bernard of Clairvaux 1
• Bernard Silvestris 1, 2
• Beroul 1, 2
• Berounka 1
• Besançon 1
• Bess of Hardwick 1
• bestiaries 1
• Bimaristans 1
• birth control 1
• Black Death 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Blickling Homilies 1
• blood 1, 2, 3
• bloodletting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
• Boccaccio, Giovanni 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• body 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
• Boethius 1, 2
• bog 1
• bogland 1
• Bohemia 1, 2
• Bonaventure 1
• Boncompagno da Signa 1, 2
• Botanicus 1
• Bote, Hermann 1
• Boyle, Robert 1, 2, 3
• Bracton, Henricus de 1, 2
• Bridal Pair 1
• Bright, Timothy 1, 2
• brothel 1
• Bruges 1
• Brunschwig, Hieronymus 1, 2, 3
• Brussels 1
• Buchlovice 1
• Burchiello 1, 2, 3
• Burgundian Wars 1
• Bury St. Edmunds 1
• Busant 1
• butchers 1, 2
• Butzbach, Johann 1, 2
• C
• Calderan Bath 1, 2
• Canigiani, Ristoro 1
• cankers 1
• Canterbury 1
• Capitula Notiarum 1
• carbuncle 1
• Carlsbad 1
• Cassian, John 1, 2, 3
• Cassiodorus 1
• Cassius Felix 1
• catalepsy 1
• Catherine of Siena 1
• Cavendish, Henry 1
• Cavendish, William, Duke 1
• Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles 1
• Černý, Johann 1
• cesspit 1
• Chambéry 1
• chamomile 1
• charadrius 1, 2
• Charissa 1
• Charlemagne 1
• Charles d’Orléans 1
• Charles I, King 1
• Charles II, King 1
• Charles IV, Emperor 1, 2
• Charles the Bald 1
• Charles V, King 1
• Charleton, Walter 1
• charms 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• chastity 1
• Château de Mauines 1
• Chaucer, Geoffrey 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• Childeric III 1
• Chrétien de Troyes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Christus medicus 1, 2
• Cistercians 1, 2
• Clairvaux 1, 2, 3, 4
• clean clothes 1
• Cleanliness 1, 2
• Cleanness 1, 2, 3, 4
• Clement, martyr 1
• Clement of Alexandria 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Clement VI 1
• Cloud of Unknowing 1, 2
• clouds 1, 2
• cold water 1, 2
• Colmar 1
• Cologne 1
• Comenius, Johann Amos 1, 2, 3
• comfort 1
• common cold 1
• common law nuisance 1
• commonplace books 1, 2, 3, 4
• Constantine the African 1
• cooking 1
• Córdoba 1
• Corpus Juris Civilis 1
• cosmology 1
• cough 1
• Council of Basel 1
• Coxe, Daniel 1
• Crabs 1
• crapula 1
• crocodile 1, 2
• Cromwell, Oliver 1
• Cruickshank, William C. 1
• Crusades 1
• Cyneheard 1
• D
• Damascus 1
• Damask rose 1
• Dante 1, 2, 3
• Danube 1, 2
• Deane, Edmund 1, 2
• decay 1
• decency 1
• De Conservanda bona valetudine donnes 1
• defecation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
• De Herba Betonica 1
• De leprosis 1
• De Leproso Amovendo 1
• Deschamps, Eustache 1, 2
• Deštná 1
• detritus 1, 2, 3, 4
• Dialectica Monacensis 1
• dietetics 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
• Dietrich von Apolda 1, 2
• digestion 1, 2
• Dioscorides 1, 2
• dirt 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
• dirtiness 1, 2
• discomfort 1, 2
• diseases 1, 2
• disgust 1
• disseisin 1, 2, 3
• distillation 1, 2
• dog 1, 2, 3
• dog-worm 1
• Dondi, Giacomo 1, 2, 3
• Donne, John 1, 2
• dove 1, 2
• dragon 1
• drains 1, 2
• The Dream of the Rood 1, 2
• drunkenness 1
• Dryander, Johannes 1
• Düdesche Arstedie 1, 2, 3
• dyscrasia 1
• E
• Ebola 1, 2
• ecocritical 1, 2
• Eco, Umberto 1
• Edward III, King 1
• Einhard 1
• Ekkehard IV, monk 1
• Elbe 1, 2
• Elephants 1
• Elisabeth, Duchess of Orléans 1, 2
• Elisabeth, St. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Empedocles 1, 2, 3
• English Common Law 1
• entrails 1, 2
• Enz 1
• Epicurus 1
• Erasmus of Rotterdam 1, 2
• Erastus, Thomas 1
• Erfurt 1, 2, 3
• Erzgebirge 1
• estiomenus 1
• Étienne de Bourbon 1
• eudaimonia 1
• evil spell 1, 2
• excrement 1, 2, 3
• excreta 1
• exercise 1, 2, 3
• F
• fabliaux 1, 2
• Fallopius, Gabriel 1
• Farce du cuvier 1
• fear of death 1
• feces 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Feldtbuch 1
• Felix 1
• festers 1
• fetores...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Introduction: Bathing, Health Care, Medicine, and Water in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age
• Treating the Condition of ‘Evil’ in the Anglo-Saxon Herbals
• Bald’s Leechbook and the Construction of Male Health in Anglo-Saxon England
• The Necessitas Naturae and Monastic Hygiene
• Caring for the Body and Soul with Water: Guerric of Igny’s Fourth Sermon on the Epiphany, Godfrey of Saint-Victor’s Fons Philosophiae, and Peter of Celle’s Letters
• Affected yet Untouched: Spatial Barriers and the Neurobehavioral Impact on Lepers Living with Limited Interpersonal Touch in the Middle Ages
• Elemental Well-Being: Water and Its Attributes in Selected Writings of Hildegard of Bingen and Georgius Agricola
• Potiones ad sanandum: Text as Remedy in a Medieval Latin Bestiary
• Troubled Waters: Bathing and Illicit Relations in Marie de France’s “Equitan” and in Flamenca
• The Liquids in Gottfried’s Tristan und Isolde: Focus of Nature and Locus of Illness and Healing
• The Ambiguous Effects of Water and Oil in Middle English Romance: Acknowledged and Ignored
• Lodestone and Litmus Test: Aqueous Presentations of Emotional Experience in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
• The Sonnet about Women who Marry in Old Age: Filth, Misogyny, and Depravity
• Si Odore Solo Locus Pestilentiosus Fiat: Private Property, Public Health and Environmental Hygiene – Advantages of the English Common Law of Nuisance over the Corpus Juris Civilis
• Mens Sana in Corpore Sanus: Water, Wellness, and Cleanliness in Five Fifteenth-Century Medical Manuals
• Water, Environment, and Dietetic Rules in Bohemian Sources of the Early Modern Times
• The ‘Dirty Middle Ages’: Bathing and Cleanliness in the Middle Ages. With an Emphasis on Medieval German Courtly Romances, Early Modern Novels, and Art History: Another Myth-Buster
• The Field Surgery Manual Which Became a Medical Commonplace Book: Hans von Gersdorff’s Feldtbuch der Wundarzney (1517) Translated into Low German
• The Role of Therapeutic Bathing in the Sixteenth Century and Its Contemporary Scientific Explanations
• Testing the Waters: Early Modern Studies
• List of Contributors
• Index