Cultures of Healing - Medieval and After

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.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgements

1. The World of the Hospital: Comparisons and Continuities
(with John Henderson and Alessandro Pastore)
The Impact of Hospitals 300–2000, eds. John Henderson, Peregrine Horden, and Alessandro Pastore (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007), pp. 1–56


2. Poverty, Charity, and the Invention of the Hospital
   The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity, ed. Scott Fitzgerald Johnson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 715-43
   


3. The Earliest Hospitals in Byzantium, Western Europe, and Islam
   Journal of Interdisciplinary History, special issue ed. Mark Cohen, ‘Poverty and Charity: Judaism, Christianity, Islam’, 35:3 (2005), pp. 361–89
   


4. Sickness and Healing [in the Christian World, 600–1100]
   The Cambridge History of Christianity, vol. 3: Early Medieval Christianities, c.600–c.1100, eds. Thomas F. X. Noble and Julia M. H. Smith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 416–32
   


5. The Late Antique Origins of the Lunatic Asylum?
   Transformations of Late Antiquity: Essays for Peter Brown, eds. Philip Rousseau and Emmanuel Papoutsakis (Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009), pp. 259–78


6. The Sick Family in the Early Middle Ages: The Evidence of Gregory of Tours, not previously published
   


7. What’s Wrong with Early Medieval Medicine?
   Social History of Medicine, 24 (2011), pp. 5–25
   


8. Cities within Cities: Early Hospital Foundations and Urban Space
   Stiftungen zwischen Politik und Wirtschaft. Ein Dialog zwischen Geschichte und Gegenwart. Ed. Sitta von Reden, Historische Zeitschrift Beiheft No. 65 (München: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2015), pp. 157–75
   


9. Alms and the Man: Hospital Founders in Byzantium
   The Impact of Hospitals 300–2000, eds. John Henderson, Peregrine Horden, and Alessandro Pastore (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007), 59–76
   


10. The Uses of Medical Manuscripts
    Medical Books in the Byzantine World, ed. Barbara Zipser, Eikasmós: Quaderni Bolognesi di Filologia Classica, Studi Online 2 (Bologna, 2013), http://www2.classics.unibo.it/eikasmos/eng/index.php?page=doc_pdf/studi_online/02_zipser, pp. 1–6
    


11. Medieval Hospital Formularies: Byzantium and Islam Compared
    Medical Books in the Byzantine World, ed. Barbara Zipser, Eikasmós: Quaderni Bolognesi di Filologia Classica, Studi Online 2 (Bologna, 2013), http://www2.classics.unibo.it/eikasmos/eng/index.php?page=doc_pdf/studi_online/02_zipser, pp. 145–64
    


12. A Context for Simon of Genoa’s Medical Dictionary (Clavis sanationis): Medicine at the Papal Court in the Later Middle Ages
    Simon of Genoa’s Medical Lexicon, ed. Barbara Zipser (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013),
    http://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/247622, pp. 15–29
    


13. Small Beer? The Parish and the Poor and Sick in the Later Medieval England
    The Parish in Late Medieval England, eds. Clive Burgess and Eamon Duffy Harlaxton Medieval Studies 14 (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2006), pp. 339–64
    


14. Musical Solutions: Past and Present in Music Therapy
    Music as Medicine: The History of Music Therapy since Antiquity, ed. Peregrine Horden (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000), pp. 4–40


15. Paracelsus: Renaissance Music Therapy and its Alternative
    Music as Medicine: The History of Music Therapy since Antiquity, ed. Peregrine Horden (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000), pp. 147–53


16. Aspects of Music Therapy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Romanticism, the USA, Mesmerism, TheosophyMusic as Medicine: The History of Music Therapy since Antiquity, ed. Peregrine Horden (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000), pp. 315–37


17. The Prehistory of Infant Sexuality
    not previously published


18. Thoughts of Freud
    Freud and the Humanities, ed. Peregrine Horden (London: Duckworth; Bristol Classical Press, 1985), pp. 1–25


19. Pandaemonium
    Demons and Illness from Antiquity to the Early-Modern Period, eds. Siam Bhayro and Catherine Rider (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017), pp. 412–18

Index

About the author

Peregrine Horden is Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is co-author, with Nicholas Purcell, of The Corrupting Sea (2000) and of both its forthcoming successor and a collection of supplementary studies entitled The Boundless Sea. He is also writing a global history of hospitals.

Summary

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.

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‘Horden’s scholarship is subtle, effortlessly erudite and witty’ – Social History of Medicine
‘Scholars and researchers interested in health and medicine during the medieval era, the history of hospitals in western Eurasia, and/or the history of charity and welfare will find a welcome companion in this volume’ - Julie Adamo, H-Disability (H-Net Reviews; February 2020)

Product details

• Authors: Peregrine Horden, Horden Peregrine
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2019
• EAN: 9781472456144
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-5614-4
• No. of pages: 378
• Series: Variorum Collected Studies; Variorum Collected Studies Series; Variorum Collected Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, MEDICAL / History, History of Medicine, Social and cultural history