NUR 515 - Art, Aesthetics and Healing

3 credit(s)
This course provides the historical, artistic, and literary contexts of subjects such as pediatric care, diseases and plagues, monstrous and wondrous creatures, and dying in late medieval and Renaissance Europe. From the outbreaks of the Black Death to the spread of the “French Disease,” from dietary advice to healing manuals, infant mortality, wet nursing, and mourning, this course will examine these complex topics from a variety of angles and perspectives. Private correspondence, diaries, moral and scientific treatises and tracts, novellas as well as architectural and iconographic designs will be included in our study of Art, Aesthetics, and Healing in 14th to 16th century Europe. Primary sources will enable students to hear the voices of contemporaries to the events under study, while secondary sources will provide tools and guidance for a sound scholarly interpretation of phenomena that significantly affected the mind, the health, and the daily life of Europeans during a crucial period of their interaction with North-American lands and population.

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