"Many of the chapters included in this volume were presented in their preliminary form in the conference: Passages from Antiquity to the Middle Ages V: Infirmitas: Social and cultural approaches to cure, caring and health", organised by Trivium - Tampere Centre for Classical, Medieval and Early Modern Studies and held at the University of Tampere in August 2012" (Preface) Christian Krötzl, Katariina Mustakallio and Jenni Kuuliala: Notes on contributorsPreface ; Introduction: infirmitas in antiquity and the middle ages Mary Harlow & Ray Laurence: I defining infirmity and disability ; Age, agency and disability : suetonius and the emperors of the first century ce Véronique Dasen: Infirmitas or not? : short-statured persons in ancient Greece Bianca Frohne: Performing dis/ability? : constructions of "infirmity" in late medieval and early modern life writing Jenni Kuuliala: Nobility, community and physical impairment in later medieval canonization processes Donatella Puliga: Towards a glossary of melancholy, depression and psychological distress in ancient Roman culture Miikka Tamminen: Societal and cultural infirmitas ; The crusader's stigmata : true crusading and the wounds of Christ in the crusade ideology of the thirteenth century Gábor Klaniczay: Illness, self-inflicted body pain and supernatural stigmata : three ways of identification with the suffering body of Christ Reima Välimäki: Imagery of disease, poison and healing in the late fourteenth-century polemics against Waldensian heresy Katariina Mustakallio & Elina Pyy: Infirmitas romana and its cure : Livy's history therapy in the ab urbe condita Svetlana Hautala: Infirmity, healing and community ; From Mithridatium to potio sancti Pauli : the idea of a medicine from antiquity to the middle ages Alison Griffith: Alternative medicine in pre-Roman and Republican Italy : sacred springs, curative baths and "votive religion" Ria Berg: Bathing the infirm: water basins in Roman iconography and household contexts Susanna Niiranen: Sexual incapacity in medieval materia medica Jonas Van Mulder: Miracles and the body social : infirmi in the middle Dutch miracle collection of Our Lady of Amersfoort Christian Krötzl: Saints, healing and communities in the later middle ages : on roles and perceptions |
