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Christ the Physician in Late-Medieval Religious Controversy - (Health and Healing in the Middle Ages) by Patrick Outhwaite (Hardcover)
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Highlights
- A consideration of the allegory of Christ the Divine Physician in medical and religious writings.
- Author(s): Patrick Outhwaite
- 298 Pages
- History, Europe
- Series Name: Health and Healing in the Middle Ages
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Book Synopsis
A consideration of the allegory of Christ the Divine Physician in medical and religious writings. Discourses of physical and spiritual health were intricately entwined in the Middle Ages, shaping intellectual concepts as well as actual treatment. The allegory of Christ as Divine Physician is an example of this intersection: it appears frequently in both medical and religious writings as a powerful figure of healing and salvation, and was invoked by dissidents and reformists in religious controversies. Drawing on previously unexplored manuscript material, this book examines the use of the Christus Medicus tradition during a period of religious turbulence. Via an interdisciplinary analysis of literature, sermons, and medical texts, it shows that Wycliffites in England and Hussites in Bohemia used concepts developed in hospital settings to press for increased lay access to Scripture and the sacraments against the strictures of the Church hierarchy. Tracing a story of reform and controversy from localised institutional contexts to two of the most important pan-European councils of the fifteenth century, Constance and Basel, it argues that at a point when the body of the Church was strained by multiple popes, heretics and schismatics, the allegory came into increasing use to restore health and order.Dimensions (Overall): 9.21 Inches (H) x 6.14 Inches (W) x .69 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.31 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 298
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: Europe
Series Title: Health and Healing in the Middle Ages
Publisher: York Medieval Press
Theme: Medieval
Format: Hardcover
Author: Patrick Outhwaite
Language: English
Street Date: May 28, 2024
TCIN: 94345279
UPC: 9781914049262
Item Number (DPCI): 247-17-0751
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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