This paper will specifically focus on the effects of the Black Death on medicine and medical practice in Europe. Its purpose is to investigate the Black Death’s influence on medicine, especially with regard to learned medicine and surgery.
Ports of Call: Boccaccio’s Alatiel in the Medieval Mediterranean
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Ports of Call: Boccaccio’s Alatiel in the Medieval Mediterranean By Sharon Kinoshita and Jason Jacobs Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Vol. 37:1 (2007) Introduction: Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron II.7 recounts the adventures of Alatiel, the beautiful daughter of the sultan of Babylon (Cairo). Dispatched from Alexandria to be wed to the Muslim king of Algarve […]
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