Medicine and Hagiography in Italy c. 800-c.1000
Clare Pilsworth
A vast range of sources, from chronicles, hagiography and the liturgy to medical manuscripts charters, is at our disposal for study health healing in Italy between ninth eleventh centuries. What needed order exploit this material a methodology careful examination sources their regional, social political context. I focus on what can contribute medicine disease, discussing detail two ninth-century episcopal hagiographies, Milanese second Vita Ambrosii, Barbati Benevento southern Italy. At same time, however, stress limitations studying texts isolation, given that one region, city, or community could be simultaneously producing number different kinds evidence, with possibly more than view sickness healing. There great potential history further investigation archaeological, liturgical, charter evidence early medieval The all surviving period, not just words, provide bridge detailed particular text discussion wider literary cultural traditions into which they fitted.
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