New approaches to disease, disability and medicine in Medieval Europe / edited by Erin Connelly and Stefanie Künzel.

Oxford : Archaeopress Archaeology, [2018]

ii, 151 pages : colour illustrations ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Christina Lee -- Introduction / Erin Connelly, Stefanie Künzel -- Þu miht wiþ þam laþan ðe geond lond færð: conceptualisations of disease in Anglo-Saxon Charms / Stefanie Künzel -- A still sound mind: personal agency of impaired people in Anglo-Saxon care and cure narratives / Marit Ronen -- Mobility limitations and assistive aids in the Merovingian burial record / Cathrin ̃Hhn -- Tearing the face in grief and rape: cheek rending in medieval Iberia, c.1000-1300 / Rachel Welsh -- Clerical leprosy and the ecclesiastical office: dis/ability and canon law / Ninon Dubourg -- Inside the leprosarium: illness in the daily life of 14th century Barcelona / Clara ̀Juregui -- Languages of experience: translating medicine in MS Laud Misc 237 / Lucy Barnhouse -- Heilḻg Bein, Brotin Bein: manifestations of disease in medieval Iceland / Cecilia Collins -- A case study of plantago in the treatment of infected wounds in the Middle English translation of Bernard of Gordon's Lilium medicinae / Erin Connelly -- Miserum spectaculum, horrendus fetor, aspectus horrendus: 'syphilis' in Strasbourg at the turn of the 16th century / Christoph Wieselhuber.