Medicine and Space: Body, Surroundings and Borders in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: 4 (Visualising the Middle Ages) - Hardcover

Patricia A. Baker; Han Nijdam; Karine Van 't Land

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 900421609X ISBN 13: 9789004216099

Publisher: BRILL, 2011

Synopsis

The papers in this volume question how perceptions of space influenced understandings of the body and its functions, illness and treatment, and the surrounding natural and built environments in relation to health in the classical and medieval periods.

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Review:

"...this volume reveals (if only in snapshots) the hidden dimensions of the body and the deeper structures that inform cultural discourses on illness and healing [...] This volume is of great value to those interested in the pre-modern body, from its interior spaces to the natural and man-made environments with which it was in constant communication. [...] Medicine and Space: Body, Surroundings, and Borders in Antiquity and the Middle Ages is a meaningful contribution to the history of medicine and the body, and will be useful to students and researchers alike.
Brenda S. Gardenour Walter, Medieval Encounters 19 (2013), pp. 238-242
"...De artikelen en prachtige afbeeldingen in Medicine and space sluiten naadloos op deze inzichten aan. [...] Vooral de inleiding van Patricia Baker en Han Nijdam biedt een zeer helder overzicht van deze verschillende invalshoeken. [...] Medicine and space biedt nu alvast een waardevolle ingang tot allerlei vragen naar het lichaam, ruimte en omgeving..."
Claire Weeda, Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 126 (2013), pp. 410-411

About the Author:

Patricia A. Baker, Ph.D. (2001) in Classics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, is now a lecturer in Classics and Archaeology at the University of Kent, Canterbury. She has published widely on Roman medicine in particular the Roman army and the material culture of medicine. Han Nijdam, Ph.D. (2008) in Humanities, Leiden University, is coordinator for Old Frisian and the Frisian Language Database at the Fryske Akademy (KNAW), Leeuwarden, Netherlands. He has published on various aspects of Old Frisian law, particularly on embodied honour and revenge. Karine van 't Land is a historian and physician affiliated to the Department of History of the Radboud University Nijmegen. She is currently writing a Ph.D. dissertation on the theme of nutrition and identity in late medieval university medicine.

About this edition

• Publisher: BRILL
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 900421609X
• ISBN 13: 9789004216099
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 392