Wounds and Wound Repair in Medieval Culture.

Intro -- Contents -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Penetrating Medieval Wounds -- Larissa Tracy and Kelly DeVries -- The Medieval Body -- Historiography -- The Physicality of Wounds -- Surgery -- Law -- Spiritual Wounds -- Literature -- part 1 -- The Physicality of Wounds -- ∵ -- section 1 -- Archae0logy and Medieval Culture -- ∵ -- Chapter 1 -- Battle Trauma in Medieval Warfare: Wounds, Weapons and Armor -- Robert C. Woosnam-Savage and Kelly DeVries -- Chapter 2 -- "And describe the shapes of the dead": Making Sense of the Archaeology of Armed Violence -- M.R. Geldof -- Chapter 3 -- Visible Prowess?: Reading Men's Head and Face Wounds in Early Medieval Europe to 1000 CE -- Patricia Skinner -- Chapter 4 -- Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes: Injury and Death in Anglo-Scottish Combat, c. 1296-c. 1403 -- Iain A. MacInnes -- Chapter 5 -- "…Vnnd schüß im vnder dem schwert den ort lang ein zů der brust": The Placement and Consequences of Sword-blows in Sigmund Ringeck's Fifteenth-Century Fencing Manual -- Rachel E. Kellett -- section 2 -- Surgery -- ∵ -- Chapter 6 -- The Diagnosis and Treatment of Wounds in the Old English Medical Collections: Anglo-Saxon Surgery? -- Debby Banham and Christine Voth Banham and Voth -- Surgical Treatments in the Old English Medical Corpus -- Why is There so Little Surgery in the Old English Medical Texts? -- Surgical Practice in Anglo-Saxon England -- Professional Boundaries -- Disciplinary Boundaries -- Explicit and 'Tacit' Knowledge -- Conclusions -- Chapter 7 -- Spitting Blood: Medieval Mongol Medical Practices -- Timothy May -- Chapter 8 -- The Wounded Soldier: Honey and Late Medieval Military Medicine -- Ilana Krug -- Chapter 9 -- "The Depth of Six Inches": Prince Hal's Head-Wound at the Battle of Shrewsbury.

Michael Livingston -- Nature of the Wound -- Treatment of the Wound -- Ramifications of the Wound -- section 3 -- Law -- ∵ -- Chapter 10 -- Wounds, Amputations, and Expert Procedures in the City of Valencia in the Early Fifteenth Century* -- Carmel Ferragud -- A Conservative Attitude to Risk -- Amputations and Medical Expertise in the Criminal Court of Justice of Valencia -- Amputation in Late Medieval Surgical Texts -- Conclusions -- Chapter 11 -- The Mutilation of Derbforgaill -- Charlene M. Eska -- part 2 -- The Spirituality of Wounds -- ∵ -- section 4 -- Stigmata -- ∵ -- Chapter 12 -- "The Wounded Surgeon": Devotion, Compassion and Metaphor in Medieval England -- Virginia Langum -- Chapter 13 -- "Scarce Anyone Survives a Heart Wound": The Wounded Christ in Irish Bardic Religious Poetry -- Salvador Ryan -- Chapter 14 -- Penetrating the Void: Picturing the Wound in Christ's Side as a Performative Space -- Vibeke Olson -- Chapter 15 -- Wandering Wounds: The Urban Body in Imitatio Christi -- Elina Gertsman -- section 5 -- Passionate Wounds -- ∵ -- Chapter 16 -- Ascetic Blood: Ethics, Suffering, and Community in Late-Medieval Culture -- Joshua S. Easterling -- Chapter 17 -- Christ's Suppurating Wounds: Leprosy in the Vita of Alice of Schaerbeek (†1250) -- Alicia Spencer-Hall* -- Chapter 18 -- Wounding the Body and Freeing the Spirit: Dorothea von Montau's Bloody Quest for Christ, a Late-Medieval Phenomenon of the Extraordinary Kind -- Albrecht Classen -- Chapter 19 -- In the Bursting of an Eye: Blinding and Blindness in Ireland's Medieval Hagiography -- Máire Johnson -- part 3 -- The Literature of Wounds -- ∵ -- Chapter 20 -- The Laconic Scar in Early Irish Literature -- William Sayers -- Chapter 21 -- "Into the hede, throw the helme and creste": Head Wounds and a Question of Kingship in the Stanzaic Morte Arthur -- Larissa Tracy -- Chapter 22.

"They … toke their shyldys before them and drew oute their swerdys …": Inflicting and Healing Wounds in Malory's Morte Darthur -- Stephen Atkinson -- Chapter 23 -- Women's Wounds in Middle English Romances: An Exploration of Defilement, Disfigurement, and a Society in Disrepair -- Barbara A. Goodman -- Afterword: The Aftermath of Wounds -- Wendy J. Turner -- Physical Wounds -- Healing Wounds -- Disabling Wounds -- Sacred Wounds -- A Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

This volume brings together essays that consider wounding and/or wound repair from a wide range of sources and disciplines including arms and armaments, military history, medical history, literature, art history, hagiography, and archaeology across medieval and early modern Europe.

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