کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1160073 959758 2009 18 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Masculinity and medicine: Thomas Walsingham and the death of the Black Prince
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم انسانی و هنر تاریخ
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Masculinity and medicine: Thomas Walsingham and the death of the Black Prince
چکیده انگلیسی

This article examines the nature of the illness that plagued Edward the Black Prince (1330–76) for the last nine years of his life and caused his death. The prince's premature death had profound political repercussions and a discussion of his symptoms provides a lens through which to examine late medieval attitudes to a wide range of social, religious and medical issues. The prince's symptoms, especially those described by Thomas Walsingham in his Chronica maiora, suggest traditional explanations of his death are incorrect. This article offers a number of varied but connected medieval and symbolic interpretations as well as a consideration of methodologies appropriate for analysing such material

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Medieval History - Volume 35, Issue 1, March 2009, Pages 34–51
نویسندگان
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