If you think it’s hard to keep up a beauty regime now, wait until you see what lengths the Venetians went to in order to be beautiful!
Make-Up and Medicine in the Middle Ages
January 13, 2015 By
A look at cosmetics and make-up in the Middle Ages.
Rabies in medieval Persian literature – the Canon of Avicenna (980–1037 AD)
August 16, 2014 By
Avicenna described rabies in humans and animals and explained its clinical manifestations, route of transmission, and treatment methods. In this article, our goal is to discuss Avicenna’s 11th-century points of view on rabies and compare them with modern medical knowledge.
Medieval Movie Review: The Physician
June 21, 2014 By
It’s a brilliant film and one well worth your medieval Saturday night in!
Avicenna’s Concept of Cardiovascular Drug Targeting in Medicamenta Cordialia
July 19, 2013 By
Avicenna (980 – 1037 AD) known as the prince of physicians in the west was one of the most prominent Persian thinkers, philosophers, and physicians. Owing to his interests in cardiology, he authored considerable works on different aspects of cardiology.
Peripheral facial palsy in the past: contributions from Avicenna, Nicolaus Friedreich and Charles Bell
August 18, 2012 By
This study provides historical documents of peripheral facial palsy from Egypt, Greece and Rome, through the middle ages, and the renaissance, and into the last four centuries.
The Canon: Essential Artillery of the Medieval Medical Student
June 28, 2012 By
Used in the first medical universities in history, it was years ahead of its time, proving to be relevant in education half a millennium after it was originally written.
A medieval Arabic analysis of motion at an instant : the Avicennan sources to the forma fluens/fluxus formae debate
April 22, 2012 By
The first and foremost topic of classical and medieval physics is the concept of motion
(Grk. kine ̄sis, Arb. h ̇ araka, Lat. motio). Within the complex of issues and problems associated with motion, the question ‘in which category does motion itself belong?’ occupied a position of considerable importance in scholastic natural philosophy.
“Neoplatonic Influence in the Writings of Robert Grosseteste”
August 21, 2011 By
“Neoplatonic Influence in the Writings of Robert Grosseteste” Hendrix, John Shannon (Roger Williams University) School of Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Papers (2008) Abstract Robert Grosseteste was appointed the first chancellor of Oxford University in 1221. He lectured in theology there from 1225 to 1230, and became the first reader to the Greyfriars or Franciscans in […]
Education and Curricula in Early Universities: Some Documentary Evidence
August 18, 2011 By
Education and Curricula in Early Universities: Some Documentary Evidence Nicolay V. TSAREVSKY (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA) Chemistry: Bulgarian Journal of Chemistry Education, Vol.14:5 (2005) Abstract Several European documents dating from as early as 13th Century (including laws, papal Bulls, and University records) are cited demonstrating that the importance of the syllabus or organized […]
In Search of Ibn Sina’s ”Oriental Philosophy“ in Medieval Castile
August 2, 2011 By
In Search of Ibn Sina’s ”Oriental Philosophy“ in Medieval Castile Szpiech, Ryan (University of Michigan) Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, Vol.20, (2010) Abstract Scholars have long debated the possibility of a mystical or illuminationist strain of thought in Ibn Sīnā’s body of writing. This debate has often focused on the meaning and contents of his partly […]
MENTAL EXISTENCE IN THOMAS AQUINAS AND AVICENNA
December 14, 2010 By
MENTAL EXISTENCE IN THOMAS AQUINAS AND AVICENNA Black, Deborah L. Mediaeval Studies, Vol. 61 (1999) Abstract Traditionally it was the case that in philosophical circles, when the name of Thomas Aquinas was raised, the doctrine that would most readily come to mind was the distinction between essence and existence, and the related claim that the act […]
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