Peregrine HORDEN : “Hospitals and Healing from Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages”

Auteur : Peregrine HORDEN

Collection : Variorum Collected Studies Series

Editeur : Ashgate Variorum

Date : 2008

Pages : 338

L’ouvrage se constitue d’un recueil d’articles de l’auteur autour de cette thématique.

Sommaire :

Part 1 Hospitals and Institutions of Care:

• How medicalized were Byzantine hospitals?
• The confraternities of Byzantium
• Ritual and public health in the early medieval city
• Religion as medicine: music in hospitals
• A non-natural environment: medicine without doctors and the medieval European hospital
• Family history and hospital history in the Middle Ages
• A discipline of relevance: the historiography of the later medieval hospital

Part 2 Sickness and Healing:

• Pain in Hippocratic medicine
• Travel sickness: medicine and mobility in the Mediterranean from Antiquity to the Renaissance
• The death of ascetics: sickness and monasticism in the early Byzantine Middle East
• Saints and doctors in the early Byzantine empire: the case of Theodore of Sykeon
• Responses to possession and insanity in the earlier Byzantine world
• Disease, dragons and saints: the management of epidemics in the Dark Ages
• Mediterranean plague in the age of Justinian
• The Millennium bug: health and medicine around the year 1000
• Continuity and discontinuity in the history of Mediterranean music therapy