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Bezig met laden... Living with Disfigurement in Early Medieval Europe (The New Middle Ages)door Patricia Skinner
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This fascinating book looks at social and medical responses to acquired facial injuries in the early medieval period. We speak of "the blind", "the deaf", "the lepers", Patricia Skinner notes, assuming that these physical characteristics created some form of shared identity among members of these groups in the Middle Ages—yet can we speak of "the disfigured" in the same way? Living with Disfigurement is to a great extent a foray into this field of study and so its findings are preliminary, and I'm a little uneasy at the prospect of trying to draw any kind of blanket conclusions from across an entire continent over a period of several hundred years. Still, I think in at least broad outline Skinner is correct to point to the idea of facial disfigurement as a sign of moral flaw as having very deep roots, and to this being a topic worthy of more attention and nuance than historians have previously given it. Well worth the read for those interested in the history of medicine and/or disability. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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This book is open access under a CC-BY 4.0 license. This book examines social and medical responses to the disfigured face in early medieval Europe, arguing that the study of head and facial injuries can offer a new contribution to the history of early medieval medicine and culture, as well as exploring the language of violence and social interactions. Despite the prevalence of warfare and conflict in early medieval society, and a veritable industry of medieval historians studying it, there has in fact been very little attention paid to the subject of head wounds and facial damage in the course of war and/or punitive justice. The impact of acquired disfigurement ?for the individual, and for her or his family and community ?is barely registered, and only recently has there been any attempt to explore the question of how damaged tissue and bone might be treated medically or surgically. In the wake of new work on disability and the emotions in the medieval period, this study documents how acquired disfigurement is recorded across different geographical and chronological contexts in the period. . Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)809.02Literature By Topic History, description and criticism of more than two literatures By Period 6th-15th centuries, 500-1499LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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