Sources For The History Of Medicine In Late Medieval England

Author : Carole Rawcliffe
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580445160

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Sources for the History of Medicine in Late Medieval England by Carole Rawcliffe Pdf

The material contained here derives from a wide variety of printed and manuscript sources, chosen to give some idea of the rich diversity of evidence available to the historian of English medicine and its place in society during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and early sixteenth centuries. Latin and French have been translated into modern English, while vernacular texts have been slightly modified, and obsolete or difficult words explained. Middle English has otherwise been retained to give the past an authentic voice and to emphasize the similarities as well as the differences between the experience of modern readers and that of the inhabitants of late medieval England

Author : Carole Rawcliffe
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000093020596

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Medicine & Society in Later Medieval England by Carole Rawcliffe Pdf

From a social context and using contemporary sources, this text explains how the medical profession (physicians, surgeons and apothecaries) developed and functioned in late medieval England. Against a backdrop of high morality, widespread disease and persistent problems of public health, it considers what alternatives were available to the patient, from society doctors to wise women, quacks and hospitals for the sick poor. Medical theories and practices of the time are investigated, along with the often satirical and sometimes hostile attitudes of the man on the street.

Author : Faye Getz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998-11-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781400822676

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Medicine in the English Middle Ages by Faye Getz Pdf

This book presents an engaging, detailed portrait of the people, ideas, and beliefs that made up the world of English medieval medicine between 750 and 1450, a time when medical practice extended far beyond modern definitions. The institutions of court, church, university, and hospital--which would eventually work to separate medical practice from other duties--had barely begun to exert an influence in medieval England, writes Faye Getz. Sufferers could seek healing from men and women of all social ranks, and the healing could encompass spiritual, legal, and philosophical as well as bodily concerns. Here the author presents an account of practitioners (English Christians, Jews, and foreigners), of medical works written by the English, of the emerging legal and institutional world of medicine, and of the medical ideals present among the educated and social elite. How medical learning gained for itself an audience is the central argument of this book, but the journey, as Getz shows, was an intricate one. Along the way, the reader encounters the magistrates of London, who confiscate a bag said by its owner to contain a human head capable of learning to speak, and learned clerical practitioners who advise people on how best to remain healthy or die a good death. Islamic medical ideas as well as the poetry of Chaucer come under scrutiny. Among the remnants of this far distant medical past, anyone may find something to amuse and something to admire.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004269118

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Medicine and the Law in the Middle Ages by Anonim Pdf

Medicine and the Law in the Middle Ages offers fresh insight into the intersection between these two distinct disciplines. A dozen authors address this intersection within three themes: medical matters in law and administration of law, professionalization and regulation of medicine, and medicine and law in hagiography. The articles include subjects such as medical expertise at law on assault, pregnancy, rape, homicide, and mental health; legal regulation of medicine; roles physicians and surgeons played in the process of professionalization; canon law regulations governing physical health and ecclesiastical leaders; and connections between saints’ judgments and the bodies of the penitent. Drawing on primary sources from England, France, Frisia, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, the volume offers a truly international perspective. Contributors are Sara M. Butler, Joanna Carraway Vitiello, Jean Dangler, Carmel Ferragud, Fiona Harris-Stoertz, Maire Johnson, Hiram Kümper, Iona McCleery, Han Nijdam, Kira Robison, Donna Trembinski, Wendy J. Turner, and Katherine D. Watson.

Author : Carole Rawcliffe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422393186

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Medicine and Society in Later Medieval England by Carole Rawcliffe Pdf

Explains the development & practice of medieval medicine (MM). Examines the prevalence of death & disease in late medieval England, & the limitations of medical theory in dealing with such problems as epidemics, wounds, mortality in childbirth & even relatively minor ailments. Having examined current theory, the author deals with the way that physicians, surgeons & apothecaries organized themselves, their financial & social position, & contemporary attitudes towards them. `Self help¿ played an important part in MM, & women were expected to treat & care for their own families. Hospitals existed for the destitute. ¿An authoritative analysis & a highly readable survey of a fascinating aspect of medieval life.¿ Over 80 color & b&w illus.

Author : Ian Dawson
Publisher : Hodder Children's Books
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Medicine
ISBN : 0750246405

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Medicine in the Middle Ages by Ian Dawson Pdf

This is one of a series of titles looking at medical advances and technology from prehistoric times up to the present day.

Author : Marilyn Deegan,D. G. Scragg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Anglo-Saxons
ISBN : UOM:39015025215974

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Medicine in Early Medieval England by Marilyn Deegan,D. G. Scragg Pdf

Author : Iona McCleery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472569929

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A Cultural History of Medicine in the Middle Ages by Iona McCleery Pdf

"Patient, disease and physician were the three corners of the 'medical triangle' according to one of the texts attributed to Hippocrates, a famous ancient Greek doctor. This volume, covering a period from roughly 800 BCE to 800 CE, examines and deconstructs these three aspects of ancient medicine in the Mediterranean world. It shows that, while physicians sought to assert themselves as experts in the medical art, they had to contend with numerous other healers whose methods, remedies and tools patients often favoured. It explores the ways in which civic entities, cities, kingdoms and empires, and their officials directly and indirectly shaped medical encounters and discoveries. It examines the interaction between medicine and the environment, non-human animals and plants. To attempt a cultural history of medicine in antiquity requires bringing together a wealth of sources: the texts attributed to Hippocrates, Galen and other medical authors are not neglected, but they are studied alongside other literary and historical works, letters on papyri, funerary inscriptions celebrating healers, surgical tools and bioarchaeological remains. While discussing the enduring cultural impact of classical Greek and Roman medicine in the West, through texts such as the Hippocratic Oath or names of diseases and types of medicines, this volume reveals the various ways in which health, disease and medical treatments were experienced diversely in the ancient world, according to gender, socio-economic class and ethnicity"--

Author : Margaret R. Schleissner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135523817

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Manuscript Sources of Medieval Medicine by Margaret R. Schleissner Pdf

In these new essays leading European and North American scholars of medieval medicine focus on manuscripts and their transmission and demonstrate how medievalists in all disciplines can profit by studying the primary medical sources rather than relying on the secondary literature. It is only through the study of actual medical manuscripts that context and audience can be discussed adequately. The lead essay by Bernard Schnell, Prolegomena to a History of Medieval German Medical Literature: The Twelfth Century, clarifies methodological principles for this literary sociology and examines the current state of research in the study of manuscript transmission. The remaining essays discuss either manuscripts by a single author or paradigmatic manuscripts within a single national tradition. Until all the basic sources in medieval texts are uncovered and a survey is made, this volume will stand as an overview of the field.

Author : DeLloyd J. Guth
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : 0521208777

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Late-medieval England, 1377-1485 by DeLloyd J. Guth Pdf

Author : Carole Rawcliffe
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015047839207

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Medicine for the Soul by Carole Rawcliffe Pdf

The medieval English hospital held a mirror to society, reflecting its preoccupations and anxieties, not only about charity and health in this world, but salvation in the next. Using a combination of contemporary documentary and architectural evidence, this text presents an in-depth assessment of one specific institution - St Gile's Hospital, Norwich - and sets it firmly in its historical context.

Author : Barbara S. Bowers,Linda Migl Keyser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Medicine
ISBN : 1472449622

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The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing by Barbara S. Bowers,Linda Migl Keyser Pdf

This volume challenges and redefines the traditional distinction made between the sacred and the secular in medieval healing, medical practice, and theory as evidenced in the historic, text record, and by material culture (sites and objects). The studies here are interdisciplinary and are grouped into two parts. The first focuses on secular and religious texts, demonstrating how the language of sacred and secular healing blurs and merges in both Latin and vernacular textual traditions. Chapters critically examine how medieval English literature draws directly from medical discourse when representing the physical and moral consequences of wrath; the reasons why empirical experience in medical education is central to the writings of Valesco de Tarenta; the narrative significance of Bede s representation of plague in his eighth-century prose Life of Cuthbert; and the implications of distinctions between late medieval religious sermons and secular discourse on plague. Authors also discuss how secular medicine and religious faith intersect in two, recorded, late medieval English miracles and present the largely unexplored impact of access to food on people s everyday health. The second part investigates how the concepts of the sacred and the secular are seen in material culture. Chapters explore how the practice of lapidary medicine by early practitioners and midwives used the protective and healing properties ascribed to gemstone amulets, eagle-stones, and lodestones. At pilgrimage sites, the dynamic nature of cure and spiritual interaction is evidenced in art and artifact. One type of object, pilgrim badges from English sites, is used to explore statistically the wider social context of faith and healing."

Author : Loren Carey MacKinney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Medical
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009062568

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Early Medieval Medicine by Loren Carey MacKinney Pdf

Author : Francine McGregor
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004538405

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Equine Medicine and Popular Romance in Late Medieval England by Francine McGregor Pdf

Equine Medicine and Popular Romance in Late Medieval England explores a seldom-studied trove of English veterinary manuals, illuminating how the daily care of horses they describe reshapes our understanding of equine representation in the popular romance of late medieval England. A saint removes a horse’s leg the more easily to shoe him; a wild horse transforms spur wounds into the self-healing practice of bleeding; a messenger calculates time through his horse’s body. Such are the rich and conflicted visions of horse/human connection in the period. Exploring this imagined relation, Francine McGregor reveals a cultural undercurrent in which medieval England is so reliant on equine bodies that human anxieties, desires, and very orientation in daily life are often figured through them. This book illuminates the complex and contradictory yearnings shaping medieval perceptions of the horse, the self, and the identities born of their affinity.

Author : C. M. Woolgar,D. Serjeantson,T. Waldron
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-07-06
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780199273492

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Food in Medieval England by C. M. Woolgar,D. Serjeantson,T. Waldron Pdf

'Food in Medieval England' draws on research across different disciplines to present a picture of the English diet from the early Saxon period up to 1540. It uses a range of sources, from the historical records of medieval farms, abbeys, & households both great & small, to animal bones, human remains, & plants from archaeological sites.