Trauma in medieval society / edited by Wendy J. Turner, Christina Lee.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intro; Anne Van Arsdall; Contents; Foreword; Walton O. Schalick, III; Preface; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Part 1; Introduction to the Theory of Trauma for the Middle Ages; Chapter 1; Conceptualizing Trauma for the Middle Ages; Wendy J. Turner and Christina Lee; Chapter 2; Trauma as a Category of Analysis; Donna Trembinski; Part 2; Trauma from Injury; Chapter 3; Neuroendocrinology and the Traumatized Self in the Letters of Abélard and Héloïse; Ronald J. Ganze; Chapter 4; Broken Bones: Trauma Analysis on a Medieval Population from Poulton, Cheshire.

Carla L. Burrell, Michael M. Emery, Sara M. Canavan, and James C. OhmanChapter 5; Looking for Burn Victims or Survivors in Medieval Europe; Patricia Skinner; Chapter 6; Power and Trauma in the 'Maid of Arras', Cantigas de Santa María 105; Belle S. Tuten; Chapter 7; The Leper and the Prostitute: Forensic Examination of Rape in Medieval England; Wendy J. Turner; Part 3; Religion and Trauma; Chapter 8; Anti-Jewish Violence and the Pastoureaux: The Case for Medieval Trauma; Susan L. Einbinder; Chapter 9.

Surviving Amputations: A Case of a Late-Medieval Femoral Amputation in the Rural Community of Moorsel (Belgium)Marit Van Cant; Chapter 10; The Trauma of Pain in Later Medieval Miracle Accounts; Bianca Frohne and Jenni Kuuliala; Chapter 11; Pain, Trauma, and the Miraculous in the Liber miraculorum sancta Fidis; Kate McGrath; Part 4; Narratives of Trauma; Chapter 12; Healing Words: St Guthlac and the Trauma of War; Christina Lee; Chapter 13; Narratives of Trauma in Medieval German Literature; Sonja Kerth; Chapter 14.

Creation and Union through Death and Massacre: the Crusade of Nicopolis and Philippe de Mézières' Epistre lamentable et consolatoireCharles-Louis Morand Métivier; Chapter 15; Apocalyptic Disease and the Seventh-Century Plague; Sally Shockro; Chapter 16; Royal Trauma and Traumatized Subjects in Late Medieval England and France; Helen Hickey; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.

This is an edited collection of articles from a variety of scholars on the history of trauma and the traumatized in medieval Europe. Looking at trauma as a theoretical concept, as part of the literary and historical lives of medieval individuals and communities, this volume brings together scholars from the fields of archaeology, anthropology, history, literature, religion, and languages. The collection offers insights into the physical impairments from and psychological responses to injury, shock, war, or other violence - either corporeal or mental. From biographical to socio-cultural analyses, these articles examine skeletal and archival evidence as well as literary substantiation of trauma as lived experience in the Middle Ages.

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