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Disease and disability in medieval and early modern art and literature

Title
Disease and disability in medieval and early modern art and literature / edited by Rinaldo F. Canalis and Massimo Ciavolella.
Publication
  • Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2021]
  • ©2021

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Additional Authors
  • Canalis, Rinaldo F.
  • Ciavolella, Massimo, 1942-
  • University of California, Los Angeles. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, sponsoring body.
  • Asclepius, the Paintbrush, and the Pen (Conference) (2018 : Los Angeles, Calif.)
Description
379 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map; 24 cm.
Summary
"Humanity has always shown a keen interest in the pathological, ranging from a morbid fascination with 'monsters' and deformities to a genuine compassion for the ill and suffering. Medieval and early modern people were no exception, expressing their emotional response to disease in both literary works and, to a somewhat lesser extent, in the plastic arts. Consequently, it becomes necessary to ask what motivated writers and artists to choose an illness or a disability and its physical and social consequences as subjects of aesthetic or intellectual expression. Were these works the result of an intrusion in their intent to faithfully reproduce nature, or do they reflect an intentional contrast against the pre-modern portrayal of spiritual ideals and, later, through the influence of the classics, the rediscovered importance and beauty of the human body? The essays contained in this volume address these questions, albeit not always directly but, rather, through an analysis of the societal reactions to the threats and challenges that essentially unopposed disease and physical impairment presented. They cover a wide range of responses, variable, of course, according to the period under scrutiny, its technological moment, and the usually fruitless attempts at treatment."--Back cover.
Series Statement
Cursor Mundi, 2034-1660 ; volume 38
Uniform Title
Cursor mundi (Turnhout, Belgium) ; v. 38.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Conference papers and proceedings.
Note
  • "A conference held in May of 2018 under the sponsorship of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies"--Page 50.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part I. Medieval and transitional periods -- The art of medicine in Byzantium : the missing link / Alain Touwaide -- Miracle and the monstrous : disability and deviant bodies in the late middle ages / Jenni Kuuliala -- Leprosy, melancholy, folly and the physiology of anguish : humoral imbalance, emotions, and psychosomatic diseases in Thomas d'Angleterre, Béroul and the Folies Tristan / Gaia Gubbini -- Malady in literary texts from the medieval and early modern periods : some hypotheses on a paradoxical constellation / Joachim Küpper -- 'Apostumes, carbuncles, and botches' : visualizing the plague in late medieval and early modern medical treatises / Lori Jones -- Part II. The early modern period -- The role of architecture and the decorative arts in renaissance medicine / Francis Wells -- Disease in art and art(ist) in disease : reflections on paradigmatic works by Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti / Manuela Gallerani -- The 'mal franzoso' between art, history and literature : Paracelsus and Della Porta / Alfonso Paolella -- The ailing artist / Roberto Fedi -- Nicolas Poussin's The Plague at Ashdod and the French disease / Efraín Kristal -- 'Yet have I in me something dangerous' : on the interplay of medicine and maleficence in Shakespeare's Hamlet / Sara Frances Burdorff -- Textures of lesions - textures of prints : Fabricius Hildanus, Frederik Ruysch, and the representation of bone lesions / Domenico Bertoloni Meli -- Index of persons.
Call Number
JQE 22-125
ISBN
  • 9782503588704
  • 2503588700
LCCN
10.1484/M.CURSOR-EB.5.119615
OCLC
1242932334
Title
Disease and disability in medieval and early modern art and literature / edited by Rinaldo F. Canalis and Massimo Ciavolella.
Publisher
Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2021]
Copyright Date
©2021
Type of Content
text
still image
cartographic image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Cursor Mundi, 2034-1660 ; volume 38
Cursor mundi (Turnhout, Belgium) ; v. 38.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Canalis, Rinaldo F., editor.
Ciavolella, Massimo, 1942- editor.
University of California, Los Angeles. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, sponsoring body.
Asclepius, the Paintbrush, and the Pen (Conference) (2018 : Los Angeles, Calif.)
Other Standard Identifier
10.1484/M.CURSOR-EB.5.119615 doi
Research Call Number
JQE 22-125
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