The Church in Sickness and in Health: Volume 58

Preface; List of Contributors; List of Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; Introduction Charlotte Methuen and Andrew Spicer; 1. Contagion of the Jews: Metaphorical and Rhetorical Uses of Sickness, Plague and Disease in Pseudo-Hegesippus Carson Bay; 2. Bede on Bodily Sickness, Episcopal Identity and Monastic Asceticism Jessica Collett; 3. Healing Body and Soul in Early Medieval Europe: Medical Remedies with Christian Elements Claire Burridge; 4. Plague and Popular Revival: Ecclesiastical Authorities, Civic Religion and the Bianchi Devotions in 1399 Alexandra Lee; 5. Preaching during Plague Epidemics in Early Modern Germany, c.1520–1618 Martin Christ; 6. A Sixteenth-Century Clergyman and Physician: Timothy Bright's Dual Approach to Melancholia Emily Betz; 7. Godly Preaching, in Sickness and Ill-Health, in Seventeenth-Century England (President's Prize) Robert W. Daniel; 8. Healthcare and Catholic Enlightenment in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Stanisław Witecki; 9. Moral Sick Notes: Medical Exemptions to Religious Fasting in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish World George A. Klaeren; 10. Pain as a Spiritual Barometer of Health: A Sign of Divine Love, 1780–1850 Angela Platt; 11. Caring for the Sick in Hamburg: Amalie Sieveking and the 'dormant strength' of Christian Women Andrew Kloes; 12. Health and Sickness as Reality and Metaphor in the Oratory Parish of F. W. Faber, 1849–63 Melissa Wilkinson; 13. Ministering to Body and Soul: Medical Missions and the Jewish Community in Nineteenth-Century London (Kennedy Prize) Jemima Jarman; 14. The Church's Promotion of Public Health in the Southern Part of the Nineteenth-Century Austro-Hungarian Empire Branka Gabrić and Darija Damjanović Barišić; 15. 'It is well with the child': Changing Views on Protestant Missionary Children's Health, 1870s–1930s Hugh Morrison; 16. Caring for the Sick and Dying in Early Twentieth-Century Anglo-Catholic Parishes Dan D. Cruickshank; 17. 'Alleviating the Sum of Human Suffering': The Origins, Attributes and Appeal of Hospital Sunday, 1859–1914 Roger Ottewill; 18. Hospital Sunday and the new National Health Service: An End to the 'Voluntary Spirit' in England? Robert Piggott; 19. From Plato to Pentecostalism: Sickness and Deliverance in the Theology of Derek Prince Brian Stanley; 20. Masks vs. God and Country: The Conflict between Public Health and Christian Nationalism Brittany Acors.