Author: Fiona MacdonaldPublisher: Gareth Stevens
ISBN: 9780836858983
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Describes the illnesses, plagues, diagnoses, and treatments during the Middle Ages.
The Plague and Medicine in the Middle Ages
Author: Fiona MacdonaldPublisher: Gareth Stevens
ISBN: 9780836858983
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Describes the illnesses, plagues, diagnoses, and treatments during the Middle Ages.
Medieval Medicine and the Plague
Author: Lynne ElliottPublisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780778713586
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Learn the history of medieval disease and how medical treatments were worse than the disease.
Doctoring the Black Death
Author: John AberthPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 144222391X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
The Black Death of the late Middle Ages is often described as the greatest natural disaster in the history of humankind. More than fifty million people, half of Europe’s population, died during the first outbreak alone from 1347 to 1353. Plague then returned fifteen more times through to the end of the medieval period in 1500, posing the greatest challenge to physicians ever recorded in the history of the medical profession. This engrossing book provides the only comprehensive history of the medical response to the Black Death over time. Leading historian John Aberth has translated many unknown plague treatises from nine different languages that vividly illustrate the human dimensions of the horrific scourge. He includes doctors’ remarkable personal anecdotes, showing how their battles to combat the disease (which often afflicted them personally) and the scale and scope of the plague led many to question ancient authorities. Dispelling many myths and misconceptions about medicine during the Middle Ages, Aberth shows that plague doctors formulated a unique and far-reaching response as they began to treat plague as a poison, a conception that had far-reaching implications, both in terms of medical treatment and social and cultural responses to the disease in society as a whole.
Medicine in the Middle Ages
Author: Ian DawsonPublisher: Enchanted Lion Books
ISBN: 9781592700370
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Learn about how medicine was practiced long ago.
Plague Image and Imagination from Medieval to Modern Times
Author: Christos LynterisPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030723046
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
This edited collection brings together new research by world-leading historians and anthropologists to examine the interaction between images of plague in different temporal and spatial contexts, and the imagination of the disease from the Middle Ages to today. The chapters in this book illuminate to what extent the image of plague has not simply reflected, but also impacted the way in which the disease is experienced in different historical periods. The book asks what is the contribution of the entanglement between epidemic image and imagination to the persistence of plague as a category of human suffering across so many centuries, in spite of profound shifts in our medical understanding of the disease. What is it that makes plague such a visually charismatic subject? And why is the medical, religious and lay imagination of plague so consistently determined by the visual register? In answering these questions, this volume takes the study of plague images beyond its usual, art-historical framework, so as to examine them and their relation to the imagination of plague from medical, historical, visual anthropological, and postcolonial perspectives.
Medieval Medicine
Author: Nicola BarberPublisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 1410946495
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Examines beliefs and practices, public health, and plague in the medieval world.
Practical Medicine from Salerno to the Black Death
Author: Luis García BallesterPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521431019
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Essays on the practical aspects of medieval European medicine.
Black Death
Author: Robert S. GottfriedPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439118469
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A fascinating work of detective history, The Black Death traces the causes and far-reaching consequences of this infamous outbreak of plague that spread across the continent of Europe from 1347 to 1351. Drawing on sources as diverse as monastic manuscripts and dendrochronological studies (which measure growth rings in trees), historian Robert S. Gottfried demonstrates how a bacillus transmitted by rat fleas brought on an ecological reign of terror -- killing one European in three, wiping out entire villages and towns, and rocking the foundation of medieval society and civilization.
Medicine Before the Plague
Author: Michael Rogers McVaughPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521524544
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
An account of the medical world in eastern Spain in the decades before the Black Death.
In the Wake of the Plague
Author: Norman F. CantorPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476797749
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Black Death was the fourteenth century's equivalent of a nuclear war. It wiped out one-third of Europe's population, taking millions of lives. The author draws together the most recent scientific discoveries and historical research to pierce the mist and tell the story of the Black Death as a gripping, intimate narrative.