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Routledge The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing: Sites, Objects, and Texts: 10 (AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science and Art)

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This volume challenges and redefines the traditional distinction made between the sacred and the secular in medieval healing, medical practice, and theory as evidenced in the historic, text record, and by material culture (sites and objects). The studies here are interdisciplinary and are grouped into two parts. The first focuses on secular and religious texts, demonstrating how the language of sacred and secular healing blurs and merges in both Latin and vernacular textual traditions. Chapters critically examine how medieval English literature draws directly from medical discourse when representing the physical and moral consequences of wrath; the reasons why empirical experience in medical education is central to the writings of Valesco de Tarenta; the narrative significance of Bede’s representation of plague in his eighth-century prose Life of Cuthbert; and the implications of distinctions between late medieval religious sermons and secular discourse on plague. Authors also discuss how secular medicine and religious faith intersect in two, recorded, late medieval English miracles and present the largely unexplored impact of access to food on people’s everyday health. The second part investigates how the concepts of the sacred and the secular are seen in material culture. Chapters explore how the practice of lapidary medicine by early practitioners and midwives used the protective and healing properties ascribed to gemstone amulets, eagle-stones, and lodestones. At pilgrimage sites, the dynamic nature of cure and spiritual interaction is evidenced in art and artifact. One type of object, pilgrim badges from English sites, is used to explore statistically the wider social context of faith and healing. Review The contents of this dense, multifaceted book, which spans the time period from Bede to the dawn of the Renaissance, cannot be summarized. It is a book that opens new avenues for adhering as closely as possible to the nature of medical treatment, the complexity of which is currently being rediscovered after decades of reductionistic physiological mechanicism that truncated the approach to ancient medicine. It is a book to be meditated upon more than simply read, almost a manifesto for a renewed history of medicine that desegments the field and opens it to the multiplicity that it always had but that historical dissection lost by anatomizing it according to sources, academic disciplines, and approaches. -Alain Touwaide, affiliated with the the Huntington Library, Art Collection, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California About the Author Barbara Bowers, AVISTA, USA, and Linda Migl Keyser, Medica: The Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages, USA

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Brand: Routledge
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ASIN: 1472449622
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography
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Release Date: 29 April 2016
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