TY - JOUR
T1 - Mourning under medical care
T2 - A study of a consilium by bartolomeo montagnana
AU - Cohen Hanegbi, Naama
PY - 2014/12/1
Y1 - 2014/12/1
N2 - A medical consilium written by the physician Bartolomeo Montagnana (1380- 1452) documents the medical advice offered to his patient, Johannes of Milano. Montagnana diagnosed Johannes's ill health as the result of intense sorrow over his daughter's death. This case constitutes an exceptional source for the investigation of grief, mourning, health, and normativity in fifteenth-century Italy. This article traces some sources of influence and parallels to this case among contemporary medical, literary, and religious writings that address the notions of unhealthy and sinful grief. Together with Bartolomeo Montagnana's consilium, they demonstrate the role medicine and physicians assumed within the social and cultural construction of grief during this period.
AB - A medical consilium written by the physician Bartolomeo Montagnana (1380- 1452) documents the medical advice offered to his patient, Johannes of Milano. Montagnana diagnosed Johannes's ill health as the result of intense sorrow over his daughter's death. This case constitutes an exceptional source for the investigation of grief, mourning, health, and normativity in fifteenth-century Italy. This article traces some sources of influence and parallels to this case among contemporary medical, literary, and religious writings that address the notions of unhealthy and sinful grief. Together with Bartolomeo Montagnana's consilium, they demonstrate the role medicine and physicians assumed within the social and cultural construction of grief during this period.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84924419668&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1353/pgn.2014.0103
DO - 10.1353/pgn.2014.0103
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AN - SCOPUS:84924419668
SN - 0313-6221
VL - 31
SP - 35
EP - 54
JO - Parergon
JF - Parergon
IS - 2
ER -