Ann Kirkham and Cordelia Warr, eds. Wounds in the Middle Ages

Abstract

Conferences and symposia can often be the platform from which new research is launched and then tested on a wider audience through an edited collection from its best and brightest contributors. Wounds in the Middle Ages, compiled by Ann Kirkham and Cordelia Warr, is just such a collection. It is the result of a symposium of the same name with the goal of exploring the 'study of wounds in medieval medicine within a wider cultural context' (p. xv). It draws together research on wounds within the medieval world from a variety of different contexts, from medical practice, romance literature to religion and, in some cases, the cross over between these perspectives...