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Medicine and the Senses: Feeling the Pulse, Smelling the Plague, and Listening for the Cure

Faith Wallis

Faith Wallis

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A Cultural History of the Senses in the Middle Ages

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...A sign of change in the quality of the body happens in four ways: either by sight as in jaundice, morphew, a blackened tongue and the like; or by smell, such as fetid breath or sweat [that smells like] a lobster or a he-goat or the like...

Mental Health in the Middle Ages

Kathryn Hurlock

Kathryn Hurlock

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Wendy J. Turner

Wendy J. Turner

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the Global Middle Ages

Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019

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...Topic/Event Description Though the terminology relating to mental health differed from modern definitions, and was in no way as specific as the taxonomy of mental disorders developed in the 1890s, a wide range of symptoms were described...

The Visual Arts

Katherine M. Boivin

Katherine M. Boivin

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A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Medieval Age

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...It is easy to overlook emotion in the visual arts created in Western Europe between 350 and 1300 CE. With notable exceptions, faces remain impassive, and it is primarily in stylized gestures that emotions can be read. But what at first...

Sa'di on Love and Morals

Homa Katouzian

Homa Katouzian

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The Coming of the Mongols

I.B.Tauris, 2018

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...What is certain about Sa’di’s life is that he flourished in the thirteenth century (seventh century AH), went to the Nezamiyeh College of Baghdad, travelled widely and lived long. It is clear from his love poetry that he was an ardent...

Literature

Juanita Feros Ruys

Juanita Feros Ruys

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A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Medieval Age

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...The category of “literature” in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages differs from modern understandings of the term. There was less of a focus on texts designed for “leisure” reading, such as novels today, but rather a strong didactic...

Bibliography of Disabilities

Wendy J. Turner

Wendy J. Turner

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the Global Middle Ages

Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019

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...I. Books, Chapters, and Articles General Eliza Buhrer, “But what is to be said of a fool?”: Intellectual Disability in Medieval Thought,” in Mental and Physical Health in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, edited by Albrecht Classen,...

Introduction: The Sensual Middle Ages

Richard G. Newhauser

Richard G. Newhauser

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A Cultural History of the Senses in the Middle Ages

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...Recent scholarship on the senses has demonstrated that an essential step in writing a comprehensive cultural history involves the reconstruction of a period’s sensorium, or the “sensory model” of conscious and unconscious associations...

In Private: The Individual and the Domestic Community

Lisa Perfetti

Lisa Perfetti

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A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Medieval Age

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...Prelude: Private or Public, Individual or Communal? In the contemporary West, we are accustomed to distinguishing between private and public, between the thoughts and behaviors we confine to ourselves or to our immediate circle...

Religion and Spirituality

Daniel Anlezark

Daniel Anlezark

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A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Medieval Age

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...The Middle Ages begin where classical Antiquity ends, but of course there was no single moment when this transition took place. Christianity was a major religion within the Roman Empire by the fourth century, and especially during...

“Rethinking the Canon: Prophets, Canons, and Promising Monsters”

Michael Camille

Michael Camille

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Classic Readings on Monster Theory : Demonstrare, Volume 1

Arc Humanities Press, 2018

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...Michael Camille (1958–2002), Mary L. Block Professor in Art History at the University of Chicago, took a decidedly iconoclastic approach to his work, focusing on subversive topics generally ignored in art history to this point, including...