This interdisciplinary volume presents new ways of thinking about how disease and death, healing and health were perceived, experienced, depicted, and understood across the global medieval world. Crossing traditional disciplinary, historiographical, and geographical boundaries, Materialities of Disease examines a broad range of visual and material artefacts from around the globe—from Western Europe, Western Africa, and Anatolia to Japan, India, China, and New Spain.
Focusing on non-textual narratives of disease, the book analyzes historical images, objects, human remains, archaeological remains, architectural spaces, materia medica, and other surviving artefacts. Collectively, these diverse, interdisciplinary contributions illuminate and nuance recent scholarly advances in medical history across multiple fields.
