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" Infirmity in antiquity and the middle ages : "
edited by Christian Krötzl, University of Tampere, Finland, Katariina Mustakallio, University of Tampere, Finland, Jenni Kuuliala, University of Bremen, Germany.
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850373
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Infirmity in antiquity and the middle ages : : social and cultural approaches to health, weakness and care /\ edited by Christian Krötzl, University of Tampere, Finland, Katariina Mustakallio, University of Tampere, Finland, Jenni Kuuliala, University of Bremen, Germany.
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Farnham, Surrey ;Burlington, VT :: Ashgate,, 2015.
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xii, 319 pages ;; 24 cm
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1472438345
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9781472438355
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9781472438362
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: infirmitas in antiquity and the middle ages / Christian Krötzl, Katariina Mustakallio and Jenni Kuuliala -- I defining infirmity and disability -- Age, agency and disability : suetonius and the emperors of the first century ce / Mary Harlow & Ray Laurence -- Infirmitas or not? : short-statured persons in ancient Greece / Véronique Dasen -- Performing dis/ability? : constructions of "infirmity" in late medieval and early modern life writing / Bianca Frohne -- Nobility, community and physical impairment in later medieval canonization processes / Jenni Kuuliala -- Towards a glossary of melancholy, depression and psychological distress in ancient Roman culture / Donatella Puliga -- Societal and cultural infirmitas -- The crusader's stigmata : true crusading and the wounds of Christ in the crusade ideology of the thirteenth century / Miikka Tamminen -- Illness, self-inflicted body pain and supernatural stigmata : three ways of identification with the suffering body of Christ / Gábor Klaniczay -- Imagery of disease, poison and healing in the late fourteenth-century polemics against Waldensian heresy / Reima Välimäki -- Infirmitas romana and its cure : Livy's history therapy in the ab urbe condita / Katariina Mustakallio & Elina Pyy -- Infirmity, healing and community -- From Mithridatium to potio sancti Pauli : the idea of a medicine from antiquity to the middle ages / Svetlana Hautala -- Alternative medicine in pre-Roman and Republican Italy : sacred springs, curative baths and "votive religion" / Alison Griffith -- Bathing the infirm: water basins in Roman iconography and household contexts / Ria Berg -- Sexual incapacity in medieval materia medica / Susanna Niiranen -- Miracles and the body social : infirmi in the middle Dutch miracle collection of Our Lady of Amersfoort / Jonas Van Mulder -- Saints, healing and communities in the later middle ages : on roles and perceptions / Christian Krötzl -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Alternative medicine.
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Civilization, Classical.
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Civilization, Medieval.
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People with disabilities-- History-- To 1500.
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People with mental disabilities-- History-- To 1500.
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Alternativ medicin.
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Alternative medicine.
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Antiken.
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Behinderung
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Civilization, Classical.
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Civilization, Medieval.
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Gebrechlichkeit
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Medeltiden.
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People with disabilities.
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People with mental disabilities.
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Personer med funktionsnedsättning.
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Schwäche
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Disabled Persons-- history.
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Health Services for Persons with Disabilities-- history.
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History, Ancient.
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History, Medieval.
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Sociological Factors.
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Europa
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Europe, History.
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Europe.
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Europe.
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362.4
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HV1552.I54 2015
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2016 B-506
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HV 1552
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Krötzl, Christian
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Kuuliala, Jenni
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Mustakallio, Katariina
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