Introduction: Bathing, Health Care, Medicine, and Water in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction: Bathing, Health Care, Medicine, and Water in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age 1
4. Treating the Condition of ‘Evil’ in the Anglo- Saxon Herbals 88
5. Bald’s Leechbook and the Construction of Male Health in Anglo-Saxon England 114
6. The Necessitas Naturae and Monastic Hygiene 129
7. Caring for the Body and Soul with Water: Guerric of Igny’s Fourth Sermon on the Epiphany, Godfrey of Saint-Victor’s Fons Philosophiae, and Peter of Celle’s Letters 148
8. Affected yet Untouched: Spatial Barriers and the Neurobehavioral Impact on Lepers Living with Limited Interpersonal Touch in the Middle Ages 171
9. Elemental Well-Being: Water and Its Attributes in Selected Writings of Hildegard of Bingen and Georgius Agricola 193
10. Potiones ad sanandum: Text as Remedy in a Medieval Latin Bestiary 221
11. Troubled Waters: Bathing and Illicit Relations in Marie de France’s “Equitan” and in Flamenca 275
12. The Liquids in Gottfried’s Tristan und Isolde: Focus of Nature and Locus of Illness and Healing 293
13. The Ambiguous Effects of Water and Oil in Middle English Romance: Acknowledged and Ignored 331
14. Lodestone and Litmus Test: Aqueous Presentations of Emotional Experience in Medieval and Renaissance Literature 357
15. The Sonnet about Women who Marry in Old Age: Filth, Misogyny, and Depravity 389
16. 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 407
17. Mens Sana in Corpore Sanus: Water, Wellness, and Cleanliness in Five Fifteenth- Century Medical Manuals 424
18. Water, Environment, and Dietetic Rules in Bohemian Sources of the Early Modern Times 441
19. 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 458
20. The Field Surgery Manual Which Became a Medical Commonplace Book: Hans von Gersdorff’s Feldtbuch der Wundarzney (1517) Translated into Low German 501
21. The Role of Therapeutic Bathing in the Sixteenth Century and Its Contemporary Scientific Explanations 528
22. Testing the Waters: Early Modern Studies 568
23. List of Contributors 599
24. Index 605