Caring for the Living Soul - Emotions, Medicine and Penance in the Late Medieval Mediterranean

Caring for the Living Soul identifies the fundamental role played by emotions in the development of learned medicine and in the formation of the social role of the "physicians of the body" in the western Mediterranean between 1200 and 1500.

About the author

Naama Cohen-Hanegbi, Ph.D. (2011), a lecturer in medieval history at Tel Aviv University, has published articles on emotions in medieval medicine and on Juan d'Aviñón's medical works. Together with Piroska Nagy she has edited The Medieval Book of Pleasure (Brepols, forthcoming).

Product details

• Authors: Naama Cohen-Hanegbi
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.05.2017
• EAN: 9789004341517
• ISBN: 978-90-04-34151-7
• No. of pages: 250
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 499 g
• Series: Medieval Mediterranean
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General