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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherBritish Archaeological Reports The Limited
ISBN-10140731310X
ISBN-139781407313108
eBay Product ID (ePID)4038778182
Product Key Features
Number of Pages86 Pages
Publication NameSocial Dimensions of Medieval Disease and Disability
LanguageEnglish
SubjectArchaeology, General, History
Publication Year2014
TypeTextbook
AuthorChristina Lee
Subject AreaSocial Science, Medical
SeriesBritish Archaeological Reports International Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Length11.7 in
Item Width8.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal610.902
SynopsisThe chronological and geographical focus of this volume is medieval northern Europe, from the 6th to the 15th centuries., The chronological and geographical focus of this volume is medieval northern Europe, from the 6th to the 15th centuries. The contributors examine the sometimes arbitrary social factors which resulted in people being deliberately, accidentally or temporarily categorised as 'disabled' within their society, in ways that are peculiar to the medieval period. Health and disease are not static and unchanging; they are subject to cultural construction, manipulation and definition. Medieval ideas of healthy and unhealthy, as these papers show, were not necessarily - or even usually - comparable to modern approaches. Each of the papers represented in this volume assesses social constructs of health and ill-health in different guises within the medieval period.