TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cohen-Hanegbi,Naama
TI  - Caring for the living soul: emotions, medicine and penance in the late medieval Mediterranean 
T2  - The medieval Mediterranean : peoples, economies and cultures, 400-1500,
SN  - 9789004344662
AV  - R575.M43 C64 2017
U1  - 610.938 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Medicine, Medieval
KW  - Mediterranean Region
KW  - History
KW  - Emotions
KW  - Health aspects
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Social medicine
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Pastoral medicine
KW  - Penance
KW  - HEALTH & FITNESS
KW  - Holism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Reference
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Alternative Medicine
KW  - Atlases
KW  - Essays
KW  - Family & General Practice
KW  - Holistic Medicine
KW  - Osteopathy
KW  - fast
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Religious life and customs
KW  - Méditerranée, Région de la
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Accidents, passions, habits, and sins -- Between and within body and soul -- Treating emotions -- Passiones del Alma-Castile, c. 1380 -- Mourning and melancholy and the boundaries of sorrow in 15th-century Italy
N2  - "Caring for the Living Soul identifies the fundamental role emotions played in the development of learned medicine and in the formation of the social role of the 'physicians of the body' in western Mediterranean between 1200 and 1500. The book explores theoretical debates and practical advice concerning the treatment of the 'accidentia anime' in diverse medical sources. Contextualizing this literature within the developments in natural philosophy and pastoral theology during the period, and alongside local and social contexts of medical practice, emotions are revealed to have been a malleable topic through which change and innovation in the field of medicine transpired. Bringing together a wide range of untapped sources and creating connections between emotions, religious authorities, and medical practitioners, this study sheds light on the centrality of the discourses of emotions to the formation of the social fabric"--Provided by publisher
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ER  -