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Online Talk · A Saint for Every Illness: Healing Patrons, Specialization, and the Pre-modern Body with Art Historian Brenda Edgar

Before the rise of modern medicine, disease was experienced as physical, spiritual, moral, and social all at once—and healing required more than physical treatment. Across medieval and early modern Europe, this worldview produced a vast and remarkably specific system of healing saints, each invoked against particular ailments: diseases of the eyes, childbirth, plague, cancer, and countless other bodily threats. Drawing on art history, religious practice, and the history of medicine, join Art Historian Brenda Edgar to explore how saints became specialists, why particular illnesses were paired with particular bodies.

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