Ekonomie nemoci a milosrdenství ve středověku

• Authors: Martin Nodl

Title variants

EN

The economy of illness and mercy in the Middle Ages

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The study focuses on the relation of the medieval person to illness and physicians, particularly taking into account the economic accessibility of treatment and the overall social dimension of the issue. It first deal with the costs for medical care and the different treatment methods, which considered the social position of the patient. It further also introduces the possibility of community, care in spittal fields, and last but not least also the influence of magical practices and faith in the miraculous abilities of the saints.

Keywords

EN

medieval medicine; physicians; spittal fields; treatment methods; John of Jenštejn; magical practices

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Mediaevalia Historica Bohemica
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 89-104

Contributors

author

Martin Nodl

• Centrum medievistických studií, Filozofický ústav AV ČR, Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic