Jones, Lori
(ed.)
Varlik, Nükhet
(ed.)
Editorial: Boydell & Brewer
Colección: Health and Healing in the Middle Ages ; 4
Número de páginas: 376 págs. 24.0 x 17.0 cm
Fecha de edición: 30-11-2022
EAN: 9781914049095
ISBN: 978-1-914049-09-5
Precio (sin IVA): 130,06 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 135,26 €
Across and beyond the pre-modern Mediterranean world, Christian, Islamic and Jewish healing traditions shared inherited medical paradigms containing similar healthy living precepts and attitudes toward body, illness and mortality. Yet, as the chapters collected here demonstrate, customs of diagnosing, explaining and coping with disease and death often diverged with respect to knowledge and practice.