Dr Anne Kirkham is a research associate at the University of Manchester. She obtained her PhD in 2007 and has published an article on St Francis of Assisi in Revival and Resurgence in Christian History (Studies in Church History, vol. 44, 2008). Since 2008, she has taught in the department of Art History and Visual Studies and researched, with Cordelia Warr, medieval wounds and has also co-supervised medical students researching dissertations in the history of medieval medicine. Dr Cordelia Warr is senior lecturer in Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Manchester. She has published on Dressing for Heaven (2010), has co-edited two books on art in Naples with Janis Elliot (The Church of Santa Maria Donna Regina, 2004, and Art and Architecture in Naples, 1266-1714, 2010), and is currently working on the representation of stigmata between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Introduction Wounds in the Middle Ages, Anne Kirkham, Cordelia Warr; Part I A Medical Overview; Chapter 1 The Management of Military Wounds in the Middle Ages, Jon Clasper; Part II Miraculous Wounds and Miraculous Healing; Chapter 2 Changing Stigmata, Cordelia Warr; Chapter 3 Miracle and Medicine: Conceptions of Medical Knowledge and Practice in Thirteenth-Century Miracle Accounts, Louise Elizabeth Wilson; Part III The Broken Body and the Broken Soul; Chapter 4 The Solution of Continuous Things: Wounds in Late Medieval Medicine and Surgery, Karine van't Land; Chapter 5 Medicine for the Wounded Soul, M.K.K. Yearl; Part IV Wounds as Signifiers for Romance Man and Civil Man; Chapter 6 Christ's Wounds and the Birth of Romance, Hannah Priest; Chapter 7 Wounding in the High Middle Ages: Law and Practice, Jenny Benham; partV Wound Surgery in the Fourteenth Century; Chapter 8 Medicines for Surgical Practice in Fourteenth-Century England: The Judgement against John le Spicer, Ian Naylor; Chapter 9 The Medical Crossbow from Jan Yperman to Isaack Koedijck, Maria Patijn; partVI the Modern Imagination; Chapter 10 The Bright Side of the Knife: Dismemberment in Medieval Europe and the Modern Imagination, Lila Yawn;

This book focuses on the representation, perception and treatment of wounds in the Middle Ages. Contributors situate wounds within the context of religious belief before turning to theory, symbolism, and more grounded spheres involving the law and the battlefield. Adopting an innovative approach to the subject, this book will appeal to all those interested in how past societies regarded health, disease and medicine as well as the ethical, religious and cultural dimensions that structured social perception.