Embodying the soul : medicine and religion in Carolingian Europe /
Embodying the Soul argues that classical medicine was reconfigured as a sacred Christian art across the Carolingian Empire in the ninth century, becoming not simply a method of physical rehabilitation but also a tool of spiritual transformation.
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2022].
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| Series: | Middle Ages series.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I An ever closer union. 1 The soul : "I take you, body, to be my lawful partner"
- 2 The self : "To have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse"
- 3 The body : "In sickness and in health, until death do us part"
- Part II Medicine for the body and soul. 4 Christianizing bodily cures
- 5 A ministry for the medicus
- Part III Medical order and disorder for self and society. 6 A necessary and timely intervention
- 7 Habits for health.