Social dimensions of medieval disease and disability
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Author
Publication
2014 - Archaeopress, Oxford, England, England
Language
English
Word Count
20,500 words, Guess
Page Count
82 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL31273781M
- ISBN-139781407313108
- OCLC Control Number892699941
- Library of Congress Control Number2014471044
Classifications
- DDC610.936
- LCCR141 .S62 2014
Description
The chronological and geographical focus of this volume is medieval northern Europe, from the 6th to the 15th centuries. The contributors examine the sometimes arbitrary social factors which resulted in people being deliberately, accidentally or temporarily categorised as "disabled" within their society, in ways that are peculiar to the medieval period. Health and disease are not static and unchanging; they are subject to cultural construction, manipulation and definition. Medieval ideas of healthy and unhealthy, as these papers show, were not necessarily - or even usually - comparable to modern approaches. Each of the papers represented in this volume assesses social constructs of health and ill-health in different guises within the medieval period -- Source other than Library of Congress.
Subjects
Series Statement
- BAR international series -- 2668
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