Soul-Health : Therapeutic Reading in Later Medieval England

by Daniel McCann

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Format Hardback or Cased Book

Book Series Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages

ISBN-10 178683331X

ISBN-13 9781786833310

Publisher University of Wales Press

Imprint University of Wales Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 15th, 2018

Print length 272 Pages

Weight 498 grams

Dimensions 16.50 x 24.10 x 2.10 cms

Product Classification: Literary theory History Archaeology

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This is a book about reading and healing. It shows how literature that makes us feel sad, horrified, or fearful was understood to bring about health of the soul in the Middle Ages. Over five chapters, it considers a specific set of negative emotions and demosntrates precisely how words can evoke strong feelings.

This book explores the connection between reading and healing. It analyses how the mental and emotional impact of reading was expanded in the Middle Ages into a therapeutic tool for improving the health of the soula state called ''salus animae''. Focusing on later Medieval England, the book explores a core set of religious texts that identify themselves as treatments for the soultexts which, nevertheless, evoke powerfully negative emotions.

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