Cultures of Healing - Medieval and After

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: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367661724
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66172-4
• No. of pages: 378
• Series: Variorum Collected Studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Healing, HISTORY / General, Social & cultural history, MEDICAL / Reference, Poverty & unemployment, Illness & addiction: social aspects, History of Medicine, CE period up to c 1500, Medieval History, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Social and cultural history, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Poverty and precarity, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Places / Europe