Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgements xiii
5. Ann G. Carmichael: An Appreciation xiv
6. List of Contributors xv
7. Note on Translation and Transliteration xviii
8. Intersections: Disease and Death, Medicine and Religion, Medieval and Early Modern 1
9. Part I: Diagnosing, Explaining and Recording
10. 1 Knowing the Signs of Disease: Plague in the Arabic Medical Commentaries between the First and Second Pandemics 35
11. 2 The Legal Foundations of Post-Mortem Diagnosis in Later Medieval Milan 67
12. 3 Epidemic Illness in the Last Book of Giovanni Villani’s New Chronicle, 1345–48: Warfare, Sin and the Heavens 99
13. 4 Colours of Disease and Death in the Early Modern Ottoman Cultural Imagination 123
14. Part II: Coping, Preventing and Healing
15. 5 The Role of Music in a Franciscan Liturgy for the End of Life, as Evidenced in Manuscript Newberry 24 151
16. 6 Medical and Spiritual Healing of Death and Disease in Medieval Miracle Stories 177
17. 7 Infirmity and Death Wishes in Medieval French and Italian Canonisation Processes 201
18. 8 Bubo Men? Repurposing Medieval Anatomic Illustrations for Plague Therapy in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries 221
19. 9 Psalm 38 as Plague Diagnostic and Prophylactic in Abraham Yagel’s Moshi‘ah Ḥosim (1587) 247
20. 10 The Protection of Innocents: Red Coral as a Lapidary Cure for the ‘Children’s Disease’ and Conditions Related to Childbirth in Medieval and Early Modern England 265
21. Part III: Studying, Analysing and Interpreting
22. 11 Leprosy in Medieval Europe: An Immunological and Syndemic Approach 295
23. 12 Past Plagues: On the Synergies of Genetic and Historical Interpretations of Infectious Disease 319
24. Select Bibliography 341
25. Index 347