Author: Frédéric BuretPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Syphilis
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
... Syphilis ...: In the middle ages and in modern times
Author: Frédéric BuretPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Syphilis
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Pox
Author: Deborah HaydenPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786724137
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Was Beethoven experiencing syphilitic euphoria when he composed "Ode to Joy"? Did van Gogh paint "Crows Over the Wheatfield" in a fit of diseased madness right before he shot himself? Was syphilis a stowaway on Columbus's return voyage to Europe? The answers to these provocative questions are likely "yes," claims Deborah Hayden in this riveting investigation of the effects of the "Pox" on the lives and works of world figures from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries. Writing with remarkable insight and narrative flair, Hayden argues that biographers and historians have vastly underestimated the influence of what Thomas Mann called "this exhilarating yet wasting disease." Shrouded in secrecy, syphilis was accompanied by wild euphoria and suicidal depression, megalomania and paranoia, profoundly affecting sufferers' worldview, their sexual behavior and personality, and, of course, their art. Deeply informed and courageously argued, Pox has already been heralded as a major contribution to our understanding of genius, madness, and creativity.
Nature in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Times
Author: Albrecht ClassenPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111387631
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
The study of pre-modern anthropology requires the close examination of the relationship between nature and human society, which has been both precarious and threatening as well as productive, soothing, inviting, and pleasurable. Much depends on the specific circumstances, as the works by philosophers, theologians, poets, artists, and medical practitioners have regularly demonstrated. It would not be good enough, as previous scholarship has commonly done, to examine simply what the various writers or artists had to say about nature. While modern scientists consider just the hard-core data of the objective world, cultural historians and literary scholars endeavor to comprehend the deeper meaning of the concept of nature presented by countless writers and artists. Only when we have a good grasp of the interactions between people and their natural environment, are we in a position to identify and interpret mental structures, social and economic relationships, medical and scientific concepts of human health, and the messages about all existence as depicted in major art works. In light of the current conditions threatening to bring upon us a global crisis, it matters centrally to take into consideration pre-modern discourses on nature and its enormous powers to understand the topoi and tropes determining the concepts through which we perceive nature. Nature thus proves to be a force far beyond all human comprehensibility, being both material and spiritual depending on our critical approaches.
Pestilence in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature
Author: Bryon Lee GrigsbyPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415968225
Category : Diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Syphilis to-day and among the ancients v. 2-3, 1895
Author: Frédéric BuretSins of the Flesh
Author: Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance StudiesPublisher: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
ISBN: 9780772720290
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Few illnesses in the early modern period carried the impact of the dreaded pox, a lethal sexually transmitted disease usually thought to be syphilis. In the early sixteenth century the disease quickly emerged as a powerful cultural force. Just as powerful were the responses of doctors, bureaucrats, moralists, playwrights, and satirists. These ten essays gauge the impact of sexual disease on early modern society by exploring the ways in which European culture reacted to the presence of a new deadly sexual infection. Articles about scientific and medical responses analyze how physicians incorporated the disease within existing intellectual frameworks. Studies in literary and metaphoric responses examine how early modern writers put images of sexual infection and the diseased body to a range of rhetorical and political uses. Finally, essays about institutional and policing responses chronicle how authorities responded to the crisis and how these public health responses linked up with wider campaigns to police sexuality.
The Hidden Affliction
Author: Simon SzreterPublisher:
ISBN: 1580469612
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Multidisciplinary collection of essays on the relationship of infertility and the "historic" STIs--gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis--producing surprising new insights in studies from across the globe and spanning millennia.
Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age
Author: Albrecht ClassenPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793648298
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
People in the Middle Ages and the early modern age more often suffered from imprisonment and enslavement than we might have assumed. Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age approaches these topics from a wide variety of perspectives and demonstrates collectively the great relevance of the issues involved. Both incarceration and slavery were (and continue to be) most painful experiences, and no one was guaranteed exemption from it. High-ranking nobles and royalties were often the victims of imprisonment and, at times, had to wait many years until their ransom was paid. Similarly, slavery existed throughout Christian Europe and in the Arab world. However, while imprisonment occasionally proved to be the catalyst for major writings and creativity, slaves in the Ottoman empire and in Egypt succeeded in rising to the highest position in society (Janissaries, Mamluks, and others).
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Author: National Center for Prevention Services (U.S.). Division of STD/HIV PreventionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : HIV infections
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
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