Infirmity in antiquity and the Middle Ages : social and cultural approaches to health, weakness and care / edited by Christian Krötzl, Katariina Mustakallio, Jenni Kuuliala.

Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2015]

xii, 319 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: infirmitas in antiquity and the middle ages / Christian Krötzl, Katariina Mustakallio and Jenni Kuuliala -- I defining infirmity and disability -- Age, agency and disability : suetonius and the emperors of the first century ce / Mary Harlow & Ray Laurence -- Infirmitas or not? : short-statured persons in ancient Greece / Véronique Dasen -- Performing dis/ability? : constructions of "infirmity" in late medieval and early modern life writing / Bianca Frohne -- Nobility, community and physical impairment in later medieval canonization processes / Jenni Kuuliala -- Towards a glossary of melancholy, depression and psychological distress in ancient Roman culture / Donatella Puliga -- Societal and cultural infirmitas -- The crusader's stigmata : true crusading and the wounds of Christ in the crusade ideology of the thirteenth century / Miikka Tamminen -- Illness, self-inflicted body pain and supernatural stigmata : three ways of identification with the suffering body of Christ / Gábor Klaniczay -- Imagery of disease, poison and healing in the late fourteenth-century polemics against Waldensian heresy / Reima Välimäki -- Infirmitas romana and its cure : Livy's history therapy in the ab urbe condita / Katariina Mustakallio & Elina Pyy -- Infirmity, healing and community -- From Mithridatium to potio sancti Pauli : the idea of a medicine from antiquity to the middle ages / Svetlana Hautala -- Alternative medicine in pre-Roman and Republican Italy : sacred springs, curative baths and "votive religion" / Alison Griffith -- Bathing the infirm: water basins in Roman iconography and household contexts / Ria Berg -- Sexual incapacity in medieval materia medica / Susanna Niiranen -- Miracles and the body social : infirmi in the middle Dutch miracle collection of Our Lady of Amersfoort / Jonas Van Mulder -- Saints, healing and communities in the later middle ages : on roles and perceptions / Christian Krötzl -- Bibliography -- Index.