Cultures of Healing: Medieval and After

Description

This volume brings together for the first time an updated collection of articles exploring poverty, poor relief, illness, and health care as they intersected in Western Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East, during a ‘long’ Middle Ages. It offers a thorough and wide-ranging investigation into the institution of the hospital and the development of medicine and charity, with focuses on the history of music therapy and the history of ideas and perceptions fundamental to psychoanalysis. The collection is both sequel and complement to Horden’s earlier volume of collected studies, Hospitals and Healing from Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages (2008). It will be welcomed by all those interested in the premodern history of healing and welfare for its breadth of scope and scholarly depth. Contents Preface Acknowledgements 1 The World of the Hospital: Comparisons and continuities (with John Henderson and Alessandro Pastore) 2 Poverty, Charity, and the Invention of the Hospital 3 The Earliest Hospitals in Byzantium, Western Europe, and Islam 4 Sickness and Healing [in the Christian World, c.600–c.1100] 5 The Late Antique Origins of the Lunatic Asylum? 6 The Sick Family in the Early Middle Ages: The evidence of Gregory of Tours 7 What’s Wrong with Early Medieval Medicine? 8 Cities Within Cities: Early hospital foundations and urban space 9 Alms and the Man: Hospital founders in Byzantium 10 The Uses of Medical Manuscripts 11 Medieval Hospital Formularies: Byzantium and Islam compared 12 A Context for Simon of Genoa’s Medical Dictionary 13 Small Beer? The parish and the poor and sick in later Medieval England 14 Musical Solutions: Past and present in music therapy 15 Paracelsus: Renaissance music therapy and its alternative 16 Aspects of Music Therapy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Romanticism, the USA, Mesmerism, Theosophy 17 The Prehistory of Infant Sexuality 18 Thoughts of Freud 19 Pandaemonium Index