Health, Healing, and Salvation: Hagiography as a Source for Medieval Healthcare

Sara Ritchey

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Chapter 20 Health, Healing, and Salvation: Hagiography as a Source for Medieval Healthcare

In: Hagiography and the History of Latin Christendom, 500â1500

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Pages:: 417â436

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004417472_022

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This essay discusses the various ways that scholars over the past half century have used hagiographic material to explore medieval European perceptions of embodiment and health. Covering statistical analysis, the social construction of sanctity, miracle cures, and the anthropology of medicine and religion, the essay argues that hagiographic materials offer an important picture of health reckoning that exposes new categories for thinking about how the body itself was conceived and experienced in Latin Christian Europe. Throughout the essay, examples from saintsâ lives, miracles, feasts, relics, and manuscript transmission reveal potential new avenues for illuminating the history of medicine.

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Hagiography and the History of Latin Christendom, 500â1500

Series:Â Reading Medieval Sources, Volume: 4

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004417472

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 18 Dec 2019

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