Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I A Medical Overview; 1 The Management of Military Wounds in the Middle Ages; Part II Miraculous Wounds and Miraculous Healing; 2 Changing Stigmata; 3 Miracle and Medicine: Conceptions of Medical Knowledge and Practice; Part III The Broken Body and the Broken Soul; 4 The Solution of Continuous Things: Wounds in Late Medieval Medicine and Surgery; 5 Medicine for the Wounded Soul; Part IV Wounds as Signifiers for Romance Man and Civil Man; 6 Christ's Wounds and the Birth of Romance
7 Wounding in the High Middle Ages: Law and PracticePart V Wound Surgery in the Fourteenth Century; 8 Medicines for Surgical Practice in Fourteenth-Century England; 9 The Medical Crossbow from Jan Yperman to Isaack Koedijck; Part VI The Modern Imagination; 10 The Bright Side of the Knife: Dismemberment in Medieval Europe and the Modern Imagination; Index
This book focuses on the representation, perception and treatment of wounds in the Middle Ages. Contributors situate wounds within the context of religious belief before turning to theory, symbolism, and more grounded spheres involving the law and the battlefield. Adopting an innovative approach to the subject, this book will appeal to all those interested in how past societies regarded health, disease and medicine as well as the ethical, religious and cultural dimensions that structured social perception
