
CONTENTS:
- Introduction and Epidemiological Perspective — Rinaldo F. Canalis and Massimo Ciavolella
Part I. Medieval and Transitional Periods
- The Art of Medicine in Byzantium: Disease and Disability in Byzantine Manuscripts — Alain Touwaide
- Miracle and the Monstrous: Disability and Deviant Bodies in the Late Middle Ages — Jenni Kuuliala
- Leprosy, Melancholy, Folly and their Representations in French Medieval Literature — Gaia Gubini
- Malady in Literary Texts from the Medieval and Early Modern Periods. Some Hypotheses on a Paradoxical Constellation — Joachim Küpper
- Fevers, Botches and Carbuncles: Describing the Plague in Late Medieval and Early Modern Medical Treatises — Lori Jones
Part II. The Early Modern Period
- The Role of Architecture and the Decorative Arts in Renaissance Medicine — Francis Wells
- Art in Disease and Disease in Art: Reflections on Two Early Modern Paradigmatic Examples — Manuela Gallerani
- The Mal Franzoso: Between Art, History and Literature: Paracelso and Della Porta — Alfonso Paolella
- The Ailing Artist — Roberto Fedi
- Nicolas Poussin`s The Plague at Ashdod and the French Disease — Efrain Kristal
- ‘Yet have I in me something dangerous’: On the Interplay of Medicine and Maleficence in Shakespeare’s Hamlet — Sara Frances Burdorff
- Textures of Lesions – Textures of Prints — Domenico Bertoloni Meli