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

• Superior document: Explorations in medieval culture ; v. 7
• TeilnehmendeR: Turner, Wendy J. 1961-; Lee, Christina.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Explorations in Medieval Culture 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (457 pages).

Trauma in Medieval Society is an edited collection of articles from a variety of scholars on the history of trauma and the traumatised 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. Contributors are Carla L. Burrell, Sara M. Canavan, Susan L. Einbinder, Michael M. Emery, Bianca Frohne, Ronald J. Ganze, Helen Hickey, Sonja Kerth, Jenni Kuuliala, Christina Lee, Kate McGrath, Charles-Louis Morand Métivier, James C. Ohman, Walton O. Schalick, III, Sally Shockro, Patricia Skinner, Donna Trembinski, Wendy J. Turner, Belle S. Tuten, Anne Van Arsdall, and Marit van Cant.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Foreword / Walton O. Schalick, III -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- 1 Conceptualizing Trauma for the Middle Ages / Wendy J. Turner and Christina Lee -- 2 Trauma as a Category of Analysis / Donna Trembinski -- 3 Neuroendocrinology and the Traumatized Self in the Letters of Abélard and Héloïse / Ronald J. Ganze -- 4 Broken Bones: Trauma Analysis on a Medieval Population from Poulton, Cheshire / Carla L. Ohman -- 5 Looking for Burn Victims or Survivors in Medieval Europe / Patricia Skinner -- 6 Power and Trauma in the ‘Maid of Arras’, Cantigas de Santa María 105 / Belle S. Tuten -- 7 The Leper and the Prostitute: Forensic Examination of Rape in Medieval England / Wendy J. Turner -- 8 Anti-Jewish Violence and the Pastoureaux: The Case for Medieval Trauma; followed by a translation of ‘I will tell what befell me’ by Solomon born Yosef of Avalon / Susan L. Einbinder -- 9 Surviving Amputations: A Case of a Late-Medieval Femoral Amputation in the Rural Community of Moorsel (Belgium) / Marit Van Cant -- 10 The Trauma of Pain in Later Medieval Miracle Accounts / Bianca Frohne and Jenni Kuuliala -- 11 Pain, Trauma, and the Miraculous in the Liber miraculorum sancta Fidis / Kate McGrath -- 12 Healing Words: St Guthlac and the Trauma of War / Christina Lee -- 13 Narratives of Trauma in Medieval German Literature / Sonja Kerth -- 14 Creation and Union through Death and Massacre: the Crusade of Nicopolis and Philippe de Mézières’ Epistre lamentable et consolatoire / Charles-Louis Morand Métivier -- 15 Apocalyptic Disease and the Seventh-Century Plague / Sally Shockro -- 16 Royal Trauma and Traumatized Subjects in Late Medieval England and France / Helen Hickey -- Afterword / Anne Van Arsdall -- Bibliography / Wendy J. Turner and Christina Lee -- Index / Wendy J. Turner and Christina Lee.