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 bri...

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.