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15 kwi 2020 · When the Black Death struck Europe in the middle of the 14th century, nobody knew how to prevent or treat the disease. Many believed they could cure it, but none of the bloodletting, concoctions, or prayers were successful. The overall intellectual framework of dealing with illness was flawed.
1 mar 2024 · Bringing them together in one place allows a deeper appreciation of the rewards – and obstacles – encountered in bioarchaeological research into medieval disability and care, offers an opportunity to review a range of methodologies applicable in this area of study, and illustrates some of the different perspectives from which this topic can ...
9 mar 2023 · The organisation of the book follows medieval methods of understanding plague, proceeding from causes to signs, prevention and finally cure. In plague treatises, environmental signs predominate, with particular signs in patients secondarily discussed.
The conference focused on infections, chronic illness, and the impact of infectious disease on medieval society, including infection as a disability in the case of visible conditions, such as infected wounds, leprosy, syphilis, and tuberculosis.
1 wrz 2021 · In many standard histories of the Medieval period, bubonic plague is virtually the only health condition mentioned. But what was medieval health really like? If, like some medieval saints, you could shield the population from specific sicknesses or harm, what would you target?
1. Samuel K Cohn, The Black Death transformed: disease and culture in early Renaissance Europe, London, Arnold, 2002. Cohn's more recent views are expressed in ch. 4 of this volume, ‘Epidemiology of the Black Death and successive waves of plague’, pp. 74–100. 2.
Becket was described as “the best physician of virtuous sick people” and the thirteenth-century windows at Canterbury provide a vivid record of miraculous cures of blindness, leprosy, drowning, madness, and the plague.
