Embodying the soul : medicine and religion in Carolingian Europe / Meg Leja.
- Leja, Meg
- Date:
- [2022]
- Books
About this work
Description
"Embodying the Soul argues that classical medicine was reconfigured as a sacred Christian art across the Carolingian Empire in the ninth century, becoming not simply a method of physical rehabilitation but also a tool of spiritual transformation"-- Provided by publisher.
Publication/Creation
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2022]
Physical description
viii, 378 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Series
Contributors
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: pt. I An Ever Closer Union -- ch. 1 The Soul: "I Take You, Body, to Be My Lawful Partner" -- ch. 2 The Self: "To Have and to Hold from This Day Forward, for Better, for Worse" -- ch. 3 The Body: "In Sickness and in Health, Until Death Do Us Part" -- pt. II Medicine for the Body and Soul -- ch. 4 Christianizing Bodily Cures -- ch. 5 A Ministry for the Medicus -- pt. III Medical Order and Disorder for Self and Society -- ch. 6 A Necessary and Timely Intervention -- ch. 7 Habits for Health.
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Subjects
- Medieval (500-1300)
- Medicine, MedievalEurope, Western
- Medicine, MedievalEurope, WesternSources
- CarolingiansHealth and hygiene
- CarolingiansReligion
- MedicineReligious aspectsChristianityHistoryTo 1500
- Human bodyReligious aspectsChristianityHistoryTo 1500
- Mind and bodyReligious aspectsChristianityHistoryTo 1500
- Religion and Medicine
- Europe
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineCW.AA2Open shelves
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ISBN
- 9780812253894
- 0812253892