Bodily and spiritual hygiene in medieval and early modern literature

Titel: Bodily and spiritual hygiene in medieval and early modern literature : exploration of textual presentations of filth and water / edited by Albrecht Classen
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Veröffentlicht: Berlin; Boston : de Gruyter, [2017]
Umfang: VII, 615 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 24 cm
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
Schriftenreihe/
mehrbändiges Werk:
Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; volume 19
Schlagworte:
Andere Ausgaben: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe: Bodily and Spiritual Hygiene in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. - Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, 2017. - Online-Ressourcen, 622 Seiten
ISBN: 9783110523294 ; 3110523299 ; 9783110523799 ; 9783110523386
  • Introduction: Bathing, Health Care, Medicine, and Water in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age
  • p. 1
  • Treating the Condition of 'Evil' in the Anglo-Saxon Herbals
  • p. 88
  • Bald's Leechbook and the Construction of Male Health in Anglo-Saxon England
  • p. 114
  • The Necessitas Naturae and Monastic Hygiene
  • p. 129
  • Caring for the Body and Soul with Water: Guerric of Igny's Fourth Sermon on the Epiphany, Godfrey of Saint-Victor's Fons Phitosophiae, and Peter of Celle's Letters
  • p. 148
  • Affected yet Untouched: Spatial Barriers and the Neurobehavioral Impact on Lepers Living with Limited Interpersonal Touch in the Middle Ages
  • p. 171
  • Elemental Well-Being: Water and Its Attributes in Selected Writings of Hildegard of Bingen and Georgius Agricola
  • p. 193
  • Potiones ad sanandum: Text as Remedy in a Medieval Latin Bestiary
  • p. 221
  • Troubled Waters: Bathing and Illicit Relations in Marie de France's "Equitan" and in Flamenca
  • p. 275
  • The Liquids in Gottfried's Tristan und Isolde: Focus of Nature and Locus of illness and Healing
  • p. 293
  • The Ambiguous Effects of Water and Oil in Middle English Romance: Acknowledged and Ignored
  • p. 331
  • Lodestone and Litmus Test: Aqueous Presentations of Emotional Experience in Medieval and Renaissance literature
  • p. 357
  • The Sonnet about Women who Marry in Old Age: Filth, Misogyny, and Depravity
  • p. 389
  • Si Odore Solo Locus Pestilentiosus Fiat: Private Property, Public Health and Environmental Hygiene - Advantages of the English Common Law of Nuisance over the Corpus Juris Civilis
  • p. 407
  • Mens Sana in Corpore Sanus: Water, Wellness, and Cleanliness in Five Fifteenth-Century Medical Manuals
  • p. 424
  • Water, Environment, and Dietetic Rules in Bohemian Sources of the Early Modern Times
  • p. 441
  • The 'Dirty Middle Ages': Bathing and Cleanliness in the Middle Ages. With an Emphasis on Medieval German Courtly Romances, Early Modern Novels, and Art History: Another Myth-Buster
  • p. 458
  • The Field Surgery Manual Which Became a Medical Commonplace Book: Hans von Gersdorff's Feldtbuch der Wundarzney (1517) Translated into Low German
  • p. 501
  • The Role of Therapeutic Bathing in the Sixteenth Century and Its Contemporary Scientific Explanations
  • p. 528
  • Testing the Waters: Early Modern Studies
  • p. 568
  • List of Contributors
  • p. 599
  • Index
  • p. 605