Materialities of Disease Across the Medieval World: Images, Objects, and Remains

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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Frontmatter
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List of Illustrations
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Acknowledgements
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Notes on Transliteration and Spelling
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Introduction. - Tales of Medieval Disease in Three Acts: Images, Objects, and Remains
pp 1-24
- By Lori Jones
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Chapter 1 - By its Spots: Leprosy as Medieval Illness
pp 25-48
- By Courtney A. Krolikoski
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Chapter 2 - Colonialism as Illness: Images of Disease and Violence from Early Colonial Mexico
pp 49-72
- By Edward Anthony Polanco
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Chapter 3 - Images of Death: Disease Representations in Sixteenth-Century New Spain
pp 73-100
- By Sandra Elena Guevara Flores
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Chapter 4 - Mondino’s X: Visualizing the Abdominal Muscles in Manuscript and Print
pp 101-124
- By R. Allen Shotwell
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Chapter 5 - Corpses as Pathogenic Agents in Early Medieval Japan
pp 125-148
- By Andrew Macomber
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Chapter 6 - Christ’s Pharmacy: Theriac and Drug Jars in the Medieval Iconography of Disease Management
pp 149-176
- By Winston Black
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Chapter 7 - Solomon’s Jinns and the Art of Healing: Talismanic Objects in the Therapeutic Landscapes of Medieval Anatolia
pp 177-202
- By Bihter Esener
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Chapter 8 - Snakes, Rashes, and Afflicted Bodies: Terracottas and Images of Disease in Medieval West Africa
pp 203-232
- By Gérard Chouin
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Chapter 9 - From the Brahmanic to the Colonial: The Sojourn of a South Indian Goddess of Disease through the Axes of Pollution and Power
pp 233-252
- By Malavika Binny
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Chapter 10 - Mobilities and Value of materia medica in Chinese Medicine for Childbirth
pp 253-276
- By Margaret Wee-Siang Ng
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Chapter 11 - A Portrait of Disease in Medieval Portugal: The Contribution of Palaeopathology
pp 277-302
- By Francisca Alves-Cardoso, Inês Belém
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Chapter 12 - “The Most Grevous Passioun”: Dental Health and Disease in Late Medieval Britain
pp 303-330
- By Carole Rawcliffe
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Index
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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Illustrations
pp vii-xii

Acknowledgements
pp xiii-xiii

Notes on Transliteration and Spelling
pp xiv-xiv

Introduction. - Tales of Medieval Disease in Three Acts: Images, Objects, and Remains
pp 1-24

Chapter 1 - By its Spots: Leprosy as Medieval Illness
pp 25-48

Chapter 2 - Colonialism as Illness: Images of Disease and Violence from Early Colonial Mexico
pp 49-72

Chapter 3 - Images of Death: Disease Representations in Sixteenth-Century New Spain
pp 73-100

Chapter 4 - Mondino’s X: Visualizing the Abdominal Muscles in Manuscript and Print
pp 101-124

Chapter 5 - Corpses as Pathogenic Agents in Early Medieval Japan
pp 125-148

Chapter 6 - Christ’s Pharmacy: Theriac and Drug Jars in the Medieval Iconography of Disease Management
pp 149-176

Chapter 7 - Solomon’s Jinns and the Art of Healing: Talismanic Objects in the Therapeutic Landscapes of Medieval Anatolia
pp 177-202

Chapter 8 - Snakes, Rashes, and Afflicted Bodies: Terracottas and Images of Disease in Medieval West Africa
pp 203-232

Chapter 9 - From the Brahmanic to the Colonial: The Sojourn of a South Indian Goddess of Disease through the Axes of Pollution and Power
pp 233-252

Chapter 10 - Mobilities and Value of materia medica in Chinese Medicine for Childbirth
pp 253-276

Chapter 11 - A Portrait of Disease in Medieval Portugal: The Contribution of Palaeopathology
pp 277-302

Chapter 12 - “The Most Grevous Passioun”: Dental Health and Disease in Late Medieval Britain
pp 303-330

Index
pp 331-342

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