{"product_id":"9781350451490-cultural-history-of-medicine-in-the-middle-ages","title":"A Cultural History of Medicine in the Middle Ages","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Middle Ages (\u003ci\u003ec\u003c\/i\u003e. 500–\u003ci\u003ec\u003c\/i\u003e. 1500) are well known for the growth of universities and urban  regulations, plague pandemics, increasingly  sophisticated ways of causing injury in  warfare, and abiding frameworks for health  and illness provided by religion. Increasingly,  however, archaeologists, historians and literary  specialists have come together to flesh out  the daily lives of medieval people at all levels  of society, both in Christian Europe and the  Islamic Mediterranean.\u003ci\u003e A Cultural History of  Medicine in the Middle Ages \u003c\/i\u003efollows suit, but  also brings new approaches and comparisons  into the conversation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Through the investigation of poems, pottery,  personal letters, recipes and petitions, and  through a breadth of topics running from street-cleaning, cooking and amulets to religious treatises  and death rituals, this volume accords new meaning and value to the period and those who lived it.  Its chapters confirm that the study of latrines, patterns of manuscript circulation, miracle narratives,  sermons, skeletons, metaphors and so on, have as much to tell us about attitudes towards health  and illness as do medical texts. Delving within and beyond texts, and focusing on the sensory, the  experiential, the personal, the body and the spirit, this volume celebrates and critiques the diverse  and complex cultural history of medieval health and medicine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41602622357601,"sku":"9781350451490","price":28.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27400194.jpg?v=1721742328","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781350451490-cultural-history-of-medicine-in-the-middle-ages","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}