Back Doctor by Hamilton Hall
The illustrations of the Benedictine monk, artist, and chronicler Matthew Paris offer a gateway into the thirteenth-century world. This new study of his cartography emphasises the striking innovations he brought to it, and shows how the maps became an investment and repository of certain medieval spatial practices: travel through the world, the occurrence of history in that world, and the religious practices and devotional attitudes that were assiduously cultivated within the larger visual culture of St. Albans abbey in great measure produced by Matthew's own images]. Travel i.e. space], history time], and devotion liturgy], then, are the primary issues and meanings deposited in and registered by Matthew Paris's cartographic landscape. In searching out these contexts, the book explores the paradigm of imagined pilgrimage as an organizing principle that pushes into greater relief medieval understandings of their arrangements of places and of histories. Thus traveling through geography could enact its meanings in a dynamic, religious, even devotional performance of the maps' materials. Richly illustrated with black and white and colour plates.
Dr. Hamilton Hall - The Back Doctor - is one of the world's foremost orthopaedic back surgeons and the author of two previous bestselling books on caring for your back and neck. In 1974, he founded the Canadian Back Institute, now CBI Health, where he continues to be Medical Director. CBI has 112 locations worldwide, with branches in seven provinces and in New Zealand, Brazil, and Hong Kong. Besides practising surgery at the Orthopaedic and Arthritic Hospital in Toronto, Dr. Hall is a Professor at the University of Toronto and sits on the Executive Committee of Sunnybrook and Women's College Foundation. He is also Consultant to the National Hockey League Players' Association, Associate Editor of The Spine Journal, and Secretary of the Canadian Spine Society. Dr. Hall lives near Owen Sound, Ontario.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780425076330 |
| ISBN 10 | 0425076334 |
| Title | Back Doctor |
| Author | Hamilton Hall |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Berkley Publishing Group |
| Year published | 1984-06-15 |
| Number of pages | 0 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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