Hospitals and Healing from Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages

Peregrine Horden is Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

Contents: Preface; Part 1 Hospitals and Institutions of Care: How medicalized were Byzantine hospitals?; The confraternities of Byzantium; Ritual and public health in the early medieval city; Religion as medicine: music in hospitals; A non-natural environment: medicine without doctors and the medieval European hospital; Family history and hospital history in the Middle Ages; A discipline of relevance: the historiography of the later medieval hospital. Part 2 Sickness and Healing: Pain in Hippocratic medicine; Travel sickness: medicine and mobility in the Mediterranean from Antiquity to the Renaissance; The death of ascetics: sickness and monasticism in the early Byzantine Middle East; Saints and doctors in the early Byzantine empire: the case of Theodore of Sykeon; Responses to possession and insanity in the earlier Byzantine world; Disease, dragons and saints: the management of epidemics in the Dark Ages; Mediterranean plague in the age of Justinian; The Millennium bug: health and medicine around the year 1000; Continuity and discontinuity in the history of Mediterranean music therapy; Addenda; Index.