Bodies of knowledge : cultural interpretations of illness and medicine in medieval Europe / edited by Sally Crawford, Christina Lee.

Oxford : Archaeopress, 2010.

iv, 70 pages ; 30 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Sally Crawford and Christina Lee -- Rage possession: a cognitive science approach to early English demon possession / Kirsten C. Uszkalo -- Outlawry and moral perversion in Old Norse society / Anne Irene Riisøy -- Hermaphroditism in the western Middle Ages: physicians, lawyers and the intersexed person / Irina Metzler -- The nadir of Western medicine? Texts, contexts and practice in Anglo-Saxon England / Sally Crawford -- 'This should not be shown to a gentile': medico-magical texts in medieval Franco-German Jewish rabbinic manuscripts / Ephraim Shoham-Steiner -- Asclepius, biographical dictionaries, and the transmission of science in the medieval Muslim world / Keren Abbou Hershkovits.