Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-xii

Acknowledgements

pp xiii-xiii

Ann G. Carmichael: An Appreciation

pp xiv-xiv

List of Contributors

pp xv-xvii

Note on Translation and Transliteration

pp xviii-xviii

Intersections: Disease and Death, Medicine and Religion, Medieval and Early Modern

pp 1-32

Part I - Diagnosing, Explaining and Recording

pp 33-34

1 - Knowing the Signs of Disease: Plague in the Arabic Medical Commentaries between the First and Second Pandemics

pp 35-66

2 - The Legal Foundations of Post-Mortem Diagnosis in Later Medieval Milan

pp 67-98

3 - Epidemic Illness in the Last Book of Giovanni Villani’s New Chronicle, 1345–48: Warfare, Sin and the Heavens

pp 99-122

4 - Colours of Disease and Death in the Early Modern Ottoman Cultural Imagination

pp 123-148

Part II - Coping, Preventing and Healing

pp 149-150

5 - The Role of Music in a Franciscan Liturgy for the End of Life, as Evidenced in Manuscript Newberry 24

pp 151-176

6 - Medical and Spiritual Healing of Death and Disease in Medieval Miracle Stories

pp 177-200

7 - Infirmity and Death Wishes in Medieval French and Italian Canonisation Processes

pp 201-220

8 - Bubo Men? Repurposing Medieval Anatomic Illustrations for Plague Therapy in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

pp 221-246

9 - Psalm 38 as Plague Diagnostic and Prophylactic in Abraham Yagel’s Moshi‘ah Ḥosim (1587)

pp 247-264

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

pp 265-292

Part III - Studying, Analysing and Interpreting

pp 293-294

11 - Leprosy in Medieval Europe: An Immunological and Syndemic Approach

pp 295-318

12 - Past Plagues: On the Synergies of Genetic and Historical Interpretations of Infectious Disease

pp 319-340

Select Bibliography

pp 341-346

Index

pp 347-354

Health and Healing in the Middle Ages

pp 355-355