Trauma in Medieval Society

Wendy J. Turner. Ph.D. (2000), University of California, Los Angeles, is Professor of History at Augusta University. The author of numerous articles, her monograph is Care and Custody of the Mentally Ill, Incompetent, and Disabled in Medieval England (2013). Christina Lee, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in Viking Studies at the University of Nottingham in the School of English. She is one of two general editors (with Sally Crawford) of Studies in Early Medicine and she has published widely on medieval disability and concepts of health. Her publications include ‘Threads and Needles: The Use of Textiles for Medical Purposes’ in Textiles, Text, Intertext (2017).

Contents

Foreword
â Walton O. Schalick, III
Preface
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
List of Contributors

Part 1: Introduction to the Theory of Trauma for the Middle Ages
1 Conceptualizing Trauma for the Middle Ages
â Wendy J. Turner and Christina Lee
2 Trauma as a Category of Analysis
â Donna Trembinski

Part 2: Trauma from Injury
3 Neuroendocrinology and the Traumatized Self in the Letters of Abelard and Heloise
â Ronald J. Ganze
4 Broken Bones: Trauma Analysis on a Medieval Population from Poulton, Cheshire
â Carla L. Burrell, Michael M. Emery, Sara M. Canavan, and
â James C. Ohman
5 Looking for Burn Victims or Survivors in Medieval Europe
â Patricia Skinner
6 Power and Trauma in the `Maid of Arras', Cantigas de Santa Maria 105
â Belle S. Tuten
7 The Leper and the Prostitute: Forensic Examination of Rape in Medieval England
â Wendy J. Turner

Part 3: Religion and Trauma
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 b. Yosef of Avalon
â Susan L. Einbinder
9 Surviving Amputations: A Case of a Late-Medieval Femoral Amputation in the Rural Community of Moorsel (Belgium)
â Marit Van Cant
10 The Trauma of Pain in Later Medieval Miracle Accounts
â Bianca Frohne and Jenni Kuuliala
11 Pain, Trauma, and the Miraculous in the Liber miraculorum sancta Fidis
â Kate McGrath

Part 4: Narratives of Trauma
12 Healing Words: St Guthlac and the Trauma of War
â Christina Lee
13 Narratives of Trauma in Medieval German Literature
â Sonja Kerth
14 Creation and Union through Death and Massacre: the Crusade of Nicopolis and Philippe de Mezieres' Epistre lamentable et consolatoire
â Charles-Louis Morand Metivier
15 Apocalyptic Disease and the Seventh-Century Plague
â Sally Shockro
16 Royal Trauma and Traumatized Subjects in Late Medieval England and France
â Helen Hickey
Afterword
â Anne Van Arsdall

Bibliography

Index