Medieval Medicine: A ReaderFaith Wallis Rich and refreshing! The material ranges from academic exposition to clinical advice, from riveting narrative to poignant correspondence, and from piety to satire. The readings are given in full, rather than excerpted. Lucid introductions cover the spectrum of the entire textbook, without ever becoming "textbookish," and serious analysis is leavened by sensible asides and keen wit. The readings and comments are perfectly matched in celebrating the vibrant sanitas of medieval medicine.---Luke Demaitre, University of Virginia Scholarship in recent decades has greatly broadened our understanding of the ways people in the Middle Ages perceived their bodies, their illnesse, and their responses to illnesses. Access to original texts has been, until now, largely confined to specialists. Wallis performs the great service of making these writings accessible through accurate and graceful translations.---Linda Ehrsam Voigts, University of Missouri-Kansas City Medieval Medicine: A Reader presents a welcome collection of primary sources on the thories and practices of medicine in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean. No comprehensive collection like this has been available before. Covering aspects of the professional training and practice of medicine, the intersections with law and the development of ethical codes, the volume is particularly useful for its rich collection of materials from the early Middle Ages, which have not been well represented in studies of medieval medicine. With helpful introductions that come from long experience teaching on the subject, Faith Wallis's collection will be a boon to any teacher or student engaging for the first time with medieval European medical history.---Monica Green, Arizona State University Medical Knowledge and practice changed profoundly during the medieval period. In this collection over 100 primary sources, many translated for the first time, Faith Wallis reveals the dynamic world of medicine the Middle Ages that has been largely unavailable to students and scholars. The reader includes 21 illustrations and a glossary of medical terms. |
Contents
Healers and HealIng | 1 |
MediCal PRaCtiCes in a Changing WoRld | 23 |
the doctor as Connoisseur of Pulses and urines | 38 |
ChRistianitY disease | 47 |
John of Beverley | 59 |
Rituals oF healing | 67 |
MediCine in eaRlY Medieval | 73 |
MonastiC MediCine in the eaRlY Medieval | 81 |
Contested FRontieRs | 317 |
Jacques desparss Reservations about Medical | 323 |
a Florentine goldsmith and Medical alchemist | 331 |
What is disease? What is illness? | 337 |
Jean | 344 |
the enigma of Mental illness | 351 |
the Meaning of illness according to hilde | 357 |
Who Can helP? PhYsiCians | 361 |
Medical Facilities within an ideal | 94 |
the MediCal netWoRKs oF MissionaRies | 110 |
a Regional Case studY MediCine | 119 |
tHe advent and IMPact | 129 |
the Romance of translating arabic | 135 |
Bartholomaeus | 156 |
the Practice of Pharmacy Rationalized | 174 |
the Practice of Medicine | 179 |
The Trotula | 185 |
VIA SCOLARIS MediCine in | 191 |
the university of arts and Medicine at Bologna | 197 |
arnau of vilanova argues that Medicine | 211 |
henri of Mondeville on Progress | 220 |
Mondino | 231 |
anatomical | 237 |
Bartholomaeus anglicus on diseases | 248 |
theoRY and PRaCtiCe | 255 |
the Case of epilepsy | 263 |
John of gaddesden on smallpox | 269 |
Bernard of gordon | 275 |
lanfranc of Milans scholastic | 281 |
lanfranc of Milan defends the intellectual | 288 |
guy of Chauliacs history | 296 |
teodorico Borgognoni and the new surgical | 306 |
ophthalmic surgery | 313 |
the Faculty of Medicine of Paris vs Jean domrémi | 369 |
the Case of Provence | 380 |
What Can theY do? CliniCal | 387 |
Precept according to arnau | 393 |
Medical Experimenta Proven Remedies by arnau | 401 |
the Medieval Medical Consilium 2 | 410 |
guy of Chauliac on the Black | 419 |
John of Burgundys Treatise | 422 |
the ethiCs oF MediCal CaRe 1 | 431 |
Malpractice in Crusader | 445 |
examining and supervising | 452 |
the ethiCs oF MediCal CaRe 2 | 461 |
a twelfth | 471 |
John of Mirfeld at st Bar | 478 |
the Cultivation oF health | 485 |
aldobrandino of siena on health through | 493 |
the army on Campaign | 501 |
the Tacuinum sanitatis | 507 |
satiRes and CRitiQues | 525 |
Petrarch lashes out against the doctors | 531 |
the doctor as Comic Relief in the Croxton Play of | 537 |
glossaRY | 543 |
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souRCes | 559 |
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